Under the Southern cross in South America . VIEW OF GUAQUI. TIN AND SILVER ORE AT GUAQUI MOST PICTURESQUE INDIAN CITY 2<S7 Before leaving the neighborhood of La Paz, we visited the vil-lage and ruins of Tiahuanaco. The most interesting of these ruinsis convenient to the little railway station at which we alighted. Wefirst inspected the mound known as The Fortress, which was orig-inally a truncated jiyramid aljout GOO feet long, 400 feet wide and30 feet high. Travelers have dug great holes in its sides, actuatedby the vain hope that they might come upon some of the treasuretrove of the wealt
Under the Southern cross in South America . VIEW OF GUAQUI. TIN AND SILVER ORE AT GUAQUI MOST PICTURESQUE INDIAN CITY 2<S7 Before leaving the neighborhood of La Paz, we visited the vil-lage and ruins of Tiahuanaco. The most interesting of these ruinsis convenient to the little railway station at which we alighted. Wefirst inspected the mound known as The Fortress, which was orig-inally a truncated jiyramid aljout GOO feet long, 400 feet wide and30 feet high. Travelers have dug great holes in its sides, actuatedby the vain hope that they might come upon some of the treasuretrove of the wealthy Indians. Not far from The Fortress are rude stone blocks aljout ten feethigh and three feet thick, wdiich are supposed to have formed partof the walls of a great temple or palace. Tourists and treasure-seekers have hauled these blocks from their original positions andnow they lie in confusion, so that it is impossible to determine howthey were originally placed. The chief ruins of Tiahuanaco consist of rows of erect, roughlyshaped monoliths, sections o
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