Contributions to the history of the south-western portion of the United States (1890)
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914 · Cambridge : John Wilson and Son, University Press · leaf 350
wever, is filled with debris to the height of nearly onemetre (3 feet). The structure which crowns the top of the platform (C I.)has the reputation of containing subterranean chambers.^ 1 The notion of their being subterranean is recent. Even Burgoa, GeogrdficaDescripcion, etc., vol. ii. cap. liii.… … AN EXCURSION TO MITLA. 285 (See Plate XXIII.) But what is generally taken for under-ground rooms is merely a basement, built into the terraceor platform which supports the structures. The southernfront, however, is so covered with debris that there is a grad-ual slope from the floor down to the…
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