. American history:. «rro-ever, should not be overlooked. Subterraneous chambers ber^int/teare scattered over the whole ground covered by this ruin- tiMTilirvLed city. They are dome-shaped—from eight to ten feet deep, and from twelve to twenty in diameter,—the walis 86 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. [Book I. ANALYSIS, and ceilings being plastered, and the floors of hard mor-tar. Their only opening is a circular hole at the top,barely large enough to admit a man. The object of thesechambers is unknown. Some have supposed them in-tended as cisterns, or reservoirs ; and others, that theywere built for gra
. American history:. «rro-ever, should not be overlooked. Subterraneous chambers ber^int/teare scattered over the whole ground covered by this ruin- tiMTilirvLed city. They are dome-shaped—from eight to ten feet deep, and from twelve to twenty in diameter,—the walis 86 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. [Book I. ANALYSIS, and ceilings being plastered, and the floors of hard mor-tar. Their only opening is a circular hole at the top,barely large enough to admit a man. The object of thesechambers is unknown. Some have supposed them in-tended as cisterns, or reservoirs ; and others, that theywere built for granaries, or Ruins. 12. South and south-east of Uxmal is a large extent of south and ,.,.,. ,, i • i • i c n smithwest of countrv which IS literally covered with rums, but tew oiwhich have yet been thoroughly explored. ^At Labnathere are several curious structures as extraordinary asthose of Uxmal, one of which is represented by the fol-lowing eniiraving. Uxmal. 3. At Labna. a. See Map, page BtilLDiNO AT L.\B>.\, 40 feet high, placed on an artificial eleyation 45 feet high. 3 Descriplirftiof the build-ing. i. Ruins atKetaick. b See Map,page 74. 13. ^This building, which stands on an artificial mound,faced with stone, forty-five feet high, rises nearly fortyfeet above the summit of the mound, making in all aheight of inore than eighty feet. The building is fortythree feet in front, and twenty in depth; and the exteriorwalls were once covered with colossal figures and orna-ments in stucco, most of which are now broken and infragments. Along the top, standing out on the wall, is arow of deaths heads ; and underneath are two lines ofhuman figures, of which scattered arms and legs aloneremain. 14. ■At Kewick,* a short distance south of Labna, arenumerous ancient buildings, now in ruins, but tor the neatness and simplicity of their archi-tecture, and the grandeur of their proportions. An en-graving of the principal doorway of one of
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