While the workmen were leveling off thepatio, or central courtyard of the edifice, previousto putting down a new pavement, they came in con-tact with a hard solid foundation which proved to bea flight of stone steps going down into the earth.They would probably have covered them up again,… … HEAD OF OCELOTL. EXCAVATING THE TEMPLE. out with their hands, till they had disclosed a monolithweighing several tons, representing a tiger recumbent,or ocelotl, ready to spring. A rude derrick was riggedup, the sculptured rock hoisted out of the hole and itwas weighed and measured. Further…
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