's "Mexico As It Was," p. 245.
(31) Thompson's "Recollections of Mexico," p. 29.
(32) "An Archaeological Tour in Mexico," p. 163.
(33) The altitude varies according to the side where the
measurement is taken. The average height is about one hundred
and seventy feet.
(34) To be described hereafter.
(35) See Chapter XI.
(36) Different explorers give different figures.
(37) Taylor's "Anahuac," p. 184.
(38) "Mexico As It Was," p. 180.
(39) Mayer: "Mexico As It Was," p. 184.
(40) This is in strict keeping with what we have seen to be true
of their pueblo sites. This is the conclusion of Mr. Bandelier,
who discusses this subject in his essay on "Art of War Among the
Mexicans." Peabody Museum Reports, Vol. II, p. 146, note 186.
(41) Bancroft: "Native Races," Vol. IV, p. 419.
(42) Bancroft's "Native Races," 393, note.
(43) Bancroft's "Native Races," Vol. IV, p. 395.
(44) Bandelier: "An Archaeological Tour in Mexico," p. 295.
(45) Mayer: "Mexico As It Was," pp. 251-2.
(46) Valentine, in "Proceedings Am. Antiq. Soc.," Oct., 1882.
(47) Bancroft's "Native Races," Vol. IV, p. 595.
(48) "Smithsonian Report," 1873, p. 373.

Chapter XIV.

THE MAYA TRIBES.

The geographical location of the Maya tribes--Description
of Copan--Statue at Copan--Altars at Copan--Ruins at Quiriga
Patinamit--Utatlan--Description of Palenque--The Palace at Palenque--The
Temple of the Three Inscriptions--Temple of the Beau-relief--Temple of
the Cross--Temple of the Sun--Maler's Temple of the Cross--Significance
of the Palenque crosses--Statue at Palenque--Other ruins in Tobasco
and Chiapas--Ruins in Yucatan--Uxmal--The Governor's House--The
Nunnery--Room in Nunnery--The sculptured facades--Temple at
Uxmal--Kabah--Zayi--Labna--Labphak--Chichen-Itza--The Nunnery--The
Castillo--The Gymnasium--M. Le Plongon's researches--The tradition of
the Three Brothers--Chaac-mol--Antiquity of Chichen.

In the Central American region of the Western Continent are found
the ruins of what are pronounced by all scholars to be the highest
civilization, and the most ancient in time, of any in the New World.
There it arose, flourished, and tottered to its fall. Its glory had
departed, its cities were a desolation, before the coming of the
Spaniards. The explorer who would visit them finds himself confronted
with very great difficulties. Their location is in a