The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . ^,,smm -Rui^^M^an ?--- - •^^0i: mi:. WMH PLAN OF PALACE AT PALENQUE (NORTH SIDE). All travellers before us have surrounded the entire palace withthis gallery, as they have surrounded the great pyramid on whichthe palace stands with a continuous stairway, but quite erroneously,as is clearly shown in our photograph, which cannot be wrong,and which presents a perpendicular wall throughout its pyramid was divided on the east, north, and west sides, Q 226 Th
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . ^,,smm -Rui^^M^an ?--- - •^^0i: mi:. WMH PLAN OF PALACE AT PALENQUE (NORTH SIDE). All travellers before us have surrounded the entire palace withthis gallery, as they have surrounded the great pyramid on whichthe palace stands with a continuous stairway, but quite erroneously,as is clearly shown in our photograph, which cannot be wrong,and which presents a perpendicular wall throughout its pyramid was divided on the east, north, and west sides, Q 226 The Ancient Cities of the New World. which were higher, into three or four platforms of which we foundtraces in the north portion. We have mentioned in a former chapter that similar sectionsor platforms are found in all the pyramids of a certain heightdiscovered by us at Palenque, which, according to tradition, hadtheir prototypes in the Uplands ; and this is particularly noticeableon the north side of the pyramid, where the palace facade iscompletely destroyed. Here, and not on the east side, as somehave supposed, was the entrance, sufficiently proved by the weal
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