The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . sis is not borne out by scientific facts, and that I cannot even claim the honour of being the first in starting it, for I was forestalled by Stephens, who says : In the remotest corridor of the palace, the wall was coated with lime, and broken in various places ; I counted as many as six coatings, every one of which bore traces of paintings. In a corner were characters which looked as though they had been written with black ink. In our efforts to reach this, the whole |: thing c
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . sis is not borne out by scientific facts, and that I cannot even claim the honour of being the first in starting it, for I was forestalled by Stephens, who says : In the remotest corridor of the palace, the wall was coated with lime, and broken in various places ; I counted as many as six coatings, every one of which bore traces of paintings. In a corner were characters which looked as though they had been written with black ink. In our efforts to reach this, the whole |: thing came down and obliged us to desist. * Granting our theory, the sixlayers at Palenque would be equi-valent to 312 years, plus the fraction of the current century,which might bring it to 330 years at the Conquest, and about690 years old up to the present time, an antiquity which may bereasonably accorded to Palenque, as the sequel will show. As may have been noticed, these monuments are identicalwith those observed by the early Spaniards, and so oftendescribed by their historians ; and if it is borne in mind that. TEMPLE BAS-RELIEF, BELLOTE. * Stephens, Incidents of Travels, vol. n. p. 316. I90 The Ancient Cities of the New World. when the Toltecs were driven from the high plateaux theymigrated south, and were found as early as 1124 establishedat Goatzacoalco, Tabasco, and Yucatan, by the envoys of Xolotl,the conclusion that the monuments under notice belonof to thistribe must force itself upon every unbiassed mind. We leave Bellote cii route for Paraiso, following the course ofTomo, Largo, and calling at Ceiba, a small hamlet standing amidsta glorious landscape. Here once rose Cintla, a dependency ofTabasco, and this is the river which Grijalva discovered, whichCortez navigated, and on the banks of which he fought his greatbattle, against 40,000 or 50,000 Indians. Many are the proofswhich can be brought to confirm our opinion : this river hasbut one mouth, and therefore can at no
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