. American history:. leyation 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 tw
. American history:. leyation 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 these buildsings is glvea on the opposite page^ Chap. III.] AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. 87. Peincipal Doorway of a Building at Kewick. CHAPTER III. SUPPOSED ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN ANTiaUITIES, AND OF THE INDIAN TRIBES. ANALYSIS. 1, *We have now closed our descriptive account ofAmerican Antiquities, and shall proceed, in the samebrief manner, to consider the question of their origin, andthe origin of the Indian tribes. *With regard to most, if not all, of the ruined structuresfound in Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America; andalso in Peru; there appears now but little difficulty insatisfactorily ascribing their origin to the aborigines whowere in possession of those countries at the time of theirdiscovery by Europeans. It is known that, at the timeof the conquest of Mexico and the adjacent provinces,edifices, similar to those whose ruins have been described,were in the possession and actual occupation of the nativeinhabitants. Some of these structures already bore themarks of antiquity, while others were evidently of recentconstruction. 2. *The glowing acc
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