. American history:. TAUASCO ■•x^^-t. a few of these structures, andperhaps those not the mostinteresting or important, canbe described here; but thisbrief notice of them will con-vey a knowledge of their gen-eral character.* The annex-ed map shows the localities ofthe ruins that are described,the most important of whichare those of Palenque in Chi-apas, of Copan in Honduras,and of Uxmal and Chichen inNorthern Yucatan. I ANALYSIS. RUINS OF PALENQUE. them. 1. Ruins of 1. The ruins of Palenque, in the province of Chiapas,paietique. i,Qj.^^g upon Yucatan, are the first which awakened attentio
. American history:. TAUASCO ■•x^^-t. a few of these structures, andperhaps those not the mostinteresting or important, canbe described here; but thisbrief notice of them will con-vey a knowledge of their gen-eral character.* The annex-ed map shows the localities ofthe ruins that are described,the most important of whichare those of Palenque in Chi-apas, of Copan in Honduras,and of Uxmal and Chichen inNorthern Yucatan. I ANALYSIS. RUINS OF PALENQUE. them. 1. Ruins of 1. The ruins of Palenque, in the province of Chiapas,paietique. i,Qj.^^g upon Yucatan, are the first which awakened attention to the existence of ancient and unknown cities 2. Our first in America. They were known to the Spaniards as ° early as 1750 ; and in 1787 they were explored by older of the King of Spain, under a commission from the gov-ernment of Guatimala. The account of the explorationwas however locked up in the archives of Guatimala untilthe time of the Mexican Revolution. In 1822 an Englishtranslation was published in London, which was the f
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