Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . liu =25 ft figures of a cornice which runsover the doorway. About 4feet above the floor in each /of the two positions marked J .X a stone in the masonry ofthe wall is pierced by a holethrough which a rope could be passed, and holes may also be noticed above thehieroglyphs on the step, which were probably needed for the support of curtains. Howthe roof of the passage between one chamber andthe other was supported is a mystery. It wascovered by a number of blocks of stone, and n
Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . liu =25 ft figures of a cornice which runsover the doorway. About 4feet above the floor in each /of the two positions marked J .X a stone in the masonry ofthe wall is pierced by a holethrough which a rope could be passed, and holes may also be noticed above thehieroglyphs on the step, which were probably needed for the support of curtains. Howthe roof of the passage between one chamber andthe other was supported is a mystery. It wascovered by a number of blocks of stone, and not bya single stone slab; and yet these blocks are squareat their edges, and could not have formed part ofa true nor of a parallel laid arch. Possibly woodenjambs and architraves supported these blocks ofstone; but if so, all trace of them has XII. is a sketch of this doorway, most care-fully restored, from photographs and measurements taken during the progress of theexcavation (Plate XIII., a), as well as after the excavation was finished. There.
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