Show MEXICAN miles out of the of at a little place San and which in Lne pre-historic time was by a vast population and there stands a It is built of displays remarkable designs and is mathematical precision neat pyramid covering more a ten-acre It is about hundred feet at the to a height of about one and seventy with steps on the west side which was covered lava and There it undisturbed for trees and shrubs growing on about so that it could not formerly been known from other mound in the great of Mexico but the govern-ent of Mexico has had for some two hundred and fifty men in this old pre-historic removing the lava that had we down from the adjoining 1 and covered the ft a result of their labor they have uncovered the greater part of this beautiful There are others near by but much You can also see the remains of a great fortress near by with walls and military indicating the intelligence of the Surrounding and leading south from the great pyramid is a street five miles I did not examine its entire but around the pyramid there is a splendid cement pavement superior to anything we can find and it is in a very good state of Although all of the street has not been you can see where the vegetation has failed to grow and by the depression and exposed parts of the pavement you can see where the street or On one side of the street they have made excavations leading down beautiful cement steps leading into a where we found a large the walls of which were splendidly cemented and in a fine state of and bearing paintings which not even the traditions of the or the know anything Men are still at work You can see there every evidence unmistakable evidence of the existence of the people who were familiar with the A gentleman who was visiting these scenes with J. H. Price of Fort a magazine not knowing my for we were who happened to meet upon the exclaimed a number of saying the people who built this city and lived here were familiar with the We found marks of the Egyptian on every not only in the great but also in the characters on the and the style of the J. H. |