. American history:. entations of weapons of , and the natui-e of the ornaments, induces the beliefthat the people were not warlike, but peaceable, idola-trous, and probably easily subdued. 8. Two or three miles from the ruins, there is a stonyrange where are quarries from which the stones for thewalls and buildings of Copan were evidently are huge blocks of stone of different degrees offinish ; and others are found on the way to the city, wherethey were probably abandoned when the labors of theworkmen were arrested. RUINS OF CHICHEN. p. 74. 1. °The ruins of Chichen, in
. American history:. entations of weapons of , and the natui-e of the ornaments, induces the beliefthat the people were not warlike, but peaceable, idola-trous, and probably easily subdued. 8. Two or three miles from the ruins, there is a stonyrange where are quarries from which the stones for thewalls and buildings of Copan were evidently are huge blocks of stone of different degrees offinish ; and others are found on the way to the city, wherethey were probably abandoned when the labors of theworkmen were arrested. RUINS OF CHICHEN. p. 74. 1. °The ruins of Chichen, in the central part of north- ^suuatwnern Yucatan, are about thirty miles west of Valladolid; the rums ofand as the high road passes through them, they are proba- ^ gg^ M^pbly better known than any other ruins in the buildings which are still standing are laid down onthe annexed Plan. The whole circumference occupiedby them is about two miles, although ruined buildings ap-pear beyond these limits. ,^:r>. r^m j-^. r\^ 3 2. Followinij the pathway from the Modern Build- ^cription fit hiiiiLdfTt* ings, as denoted on the annexed Plan, at the distance of No. i. thirty or forty rods we arrive at the building representedas No. 1. This building faces the east, and measuresone hundred and forty-nine feet in front, by forty-eightfeet deep. The whole exterior is rude and without orna-ment of any kind. In the centre of one side, a , forty-five feet wide, now in ruins, rises to theroof of the building. The whole number of apartmentsis eighteen; one of which, from its darkness, and fromthe sculpture on the Intel of its doorway, has given a 80 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES. [Book I ANALYSIS. 1. The Hmtxe ofVw Nuns. t. See No 2, preceding liufee. 2. Exteriorbuildings. 3. The prin-cipal pile of buititin^s,with its seve-ral staircases, platforms,and rafii;es. 4. Circumfe-rence and height of ihestructure. 5 Upper plat-form, ai>art-iiienls, innerteulls,paint-ings, $-c. C
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