Show PYRAMIDS S O OF Q SOLD OLD MEXICO All AU through life ute we hear heir of ot the wonderful wonderful won won- pyramids of Ept Jt but never do dowe wo we hear of or the tho pyramids of ot old Mexico Thes These pyramids of at Mexico are aro far tar more wonderful and without doubt as old If JC not older th than n the pyramids of Egypt Mexico and Yucatan have many of these edifices some In a Rood good state or repair and others crumbling Into mere mera ruins and yet la In spite of ot the fact that many of ot them are crumbling under tho the onslaught on on- slaught of t tho the elements and tho the r ravages ot at the luxuriant tropical growth crowth there I can be traced without difficulty their grandeur of ot the tho past At El EI Castillo I Yucatan is one of ot the finest of th the tho pyra- pyra mide for all all' Mexico is to be seen lleen here I feet hl high h and feet teet square at Its ite base ban It has stairways on all oU four sides Bides with A square temple at Its the he walls of which are ate o oC masonry three feet teet thick The temple leIR In Ia plain with Its pillars and portals sculptured in relief with the curious warlike human figures and serpents erven so eo frequently s seen en all JI over Mexico and which undoubtedly undoubted refer to th tim war ar Rods gods of ot the and Ma Mayas as At El in the province of ot Vera VeraCruz Cruz Cru is another pyramid peculiar In the fact tact that It presents a. a feature found in Sn inno inno no other similar structure all afi through Mexico This Is constructed of earth dressed with stone and la Is solid through through- out With the exception of ot a a. space r re reserved ro- ro I served for tor the I stairway tal tho pyramid Is faced on all four tour sides aides with a series of ot stone niches t which are evidently de designed designed do de- signed to receive statues The temple templo which on once co occupied the crown of or this pyramid has has- disappeared All AU over MexIco MexIco Mexico Mex Mex- ico are found carved serpents serpent In Stone of colossal size One sculptured on a hugo huge rock near Fuente is twenty feet teet Ion long Ions and represents tho the serpent crawling out of ot the spring which bubbles out of the rock while Its Us huge hwe taU tall Is la hidden in the spring Experts are of the tho opinion that It represents a Mexican water god Health |