Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán . I IDOLS ORIGINALLY PAINTED. 155 At the distance of one hundred and twenty feet northis the monument marked O, which, unhappily, is fallenand broken. In sculpture it is the same with the beau-tiful half-buried monument before given, and, I repeatit, in workmanship equal to the best remains of Egyp-tian art. The fallen part was completely bound to theearth by vines and creepers, and before it could bedrawn it was necessary to unlace them, and tear thefibres out of the crevices. The paint is very perfect,and has preserved the stone,
Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán . I IDOLS ORIGINALLY PAINTED. 155 At the distance of one hundred and twenty feet northis the monument marked O, which, unhappily, is fallenand broken. In sculpture it is the same with the beau-tiful half-buried monument before given, and, I repeatit, in workmanship equal to the best remains of Egyp-tian art. The fallen part was completely bound to theearth by vines and creepers, and before it could bedrawn it was necessary to unlace them, and tear thefibres out of the crevices. The paint is very perfect,and has preserved the stone, which makes it more tobe regretted that it is broken. The altar is buried,with the top barely visible, which, by excavating, wemade out to represent the back of a tortoise. 156 INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. The next engravings exhibit the front, back, and oneof the sides of monument N, distant twenty feet fromthe last. It is twelve feet high, four feet on one side,three feet four inches on the other, and stands on a ped-estal seven feet square, with its front to the w
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