p. 262), they could not have been intended for
such use.
(47) The pyramid is three hundred and fifty feet square at the
base and nineteen feet high. The terraces are along the south
side. The lowest terrace is three feet high and twenty feet
wide. The second is twelve feet high and forty-five feet wide.
The third is four feet high and five feet wide. The building on
the south side is two hundred and seventy-nine feet long,
twenty-eight feet wide, and eighteen feet high. The north one is
two hundred and sixty-four feet long, twenty-eight feet wide,
and twenty-five feet high. The eastern one, one hundred and
fifty-eight feet long, thirty-five feet wide, and twenty-two
feet high. The western one, one hundred and seventy-three feet
long, thirty-five feet wide, and twenty feet high. (Bancroft's
"Native Races," Vol. IV, p. 174.) The area of the court is two
hundred and fourteen feet by two hundred and fifty-eight feet.
It is about two and a half feet lower than the buildings on the
eastern, western, and southern sides. There are seventy-six
rooms in the four ranges of buildings, and twelve more in the
facings of the terrace of the north building, to be described.
In size the rooms vary from twenty to thirty feet long by from
ten to twelve feet wide.
(48) Bancroft: "Native Races," Vol. IV, p. 179.
(49) The dimensions of this mound are as follows: Length of
base, two hundred and thirty-five feet; width of base, one
hundred and five feet; height, eighty-eight feet. Though
diminishing as it rises, it is not exactly pyramidal, but its
corners are rounded. It is incased with stone, and is apparently
solid from the plain.--Stephens's "Yucatan," Vol. I, p. 316.
(50) See "Proceedings Am. Antiq. Society," April, 1880, p. 57.
(51) _North American Review,_ 1882.
(52) "Contributions to North American Ethnology," Vol. IV,
p. 267.
(53) Stephens's "Yucatan," Vol. II, p. 164.
(54) Short's "North Americans of Antiquity," p. 396; Charney:
_North American Review,_ October, 1880.
(55) "Proceedings Am. Antiq. Society," Oct., 1878, p. 73.
(56) Learned men of the Mayas.
(57) American Antiquarian Society, October 1878.
(58) The tigers can be seen on the engraving of the gymnasium.
(59) Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, April, 1877,
p. 97