The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . whole valley could be obtained. Next comes No. 4,perhaps a reception-room, 32 ft. long, having two openings towardsthe court. On the other side, to the north, is a smaller, narrowerBelvedere, from which an ante room, on a slightly lower level,furnished with benches, was reached. The main body of thepalace consists of ten apartments of different size, with stuccoedwalls and floors. The facade, No. 2, S ft. high, opens on thecourtyard; whilst two winding stone staircases to the rig
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . whole valley could be obtained. Next comes No. 4,perhaps a reception-room, 32 ft. long, having two openings towardsthe court. On the other side, to the north, is a smaller, narrowerBelvedere, from which an ante room, on a slightly lower level,furnished with benches, was reached. The main body of thepalace consists of ten apartments of different size, with stuccoedwalls and floors. The facade, No. 2, S ft. high, opens on thecourtyard; whilst two winding stone staircases to the right,and an equal number to the left, led to the apartments on thefirst storey. Brick steps, covered with a deep layer of cement, Palpan and the Toltecs. 109 connected the various chambers. The cells on both sides ofthe main apartments may have been the servants 6, No. 6, are a kind of yards, without any trace of roof, andif we are to judge from Aztec dwellings, they were probablyenclosures for domestic and wild animals. The Americans, saysClavigero, had no tlocks; nevertheless their table was well. VIEW OF RUINED TOLTEC PALACE, supplied by innumerable animals to be found about their dwell-ings, and unknown to Europe; whilst the poor people had anedible dog, tcchichi, the breed of which was lost by the abusethe Spaniards made of It in the early times of the palaces had extensive spaces reserved for turkeys, ducks,and every species of volatile, a menagerie for wild animals,chambers for reptiles and birds of prey, and tanks for fish ; so * Clavigero, tome i. lib. vii. p. 224. no The Ancient Cities of the New World. that the purpose we ascribe to these enclosures becomes highlyprobable. Here and there closed-up passages, walls rebuiltwith materials other than those employed in the older con-struction, seem to indicate that the palace was occupied at twodifferent periods ; this would agree with Veytia when he says, that on the Chichemecs invading the count
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