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Title: Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Stephens, John Lloyd, 1805-1852 Harper & Brothers, publisher
Subjects: Mayas
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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lpture ;and from the entire absence of them here there is rea-son to believe that the people were not warlike, butpeaceable, and easily subdued. The other courtyard is near the river. By cuttingdown the trees, we discovered the entrance to be onthe north side, by a passage thirty feet wide and aboutthree hundred feet long. On the right is a high rangeof steps rising to the terrace of the river wall. At thefoot of this are six circular stones, from eighteen inchesto three feet in diameter, perhaps once the pedestals ofcolumns or monuments now fallen and buried. On theleft side of the passage is a high pyramidal structure,with steps six feet high and nine feet broad, like theside of one of the pyramids at Saceara, and one hun-dred and twenty-two feet high on the slope. The topis fallen, and has two immense Ceiba trees growing outof it, the roots of which have thrown down the stones,and now bind the top of the pyramid. At the end ofthe passage is the area or courtyard, probably the great
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