Show THE PYRAMIDS OF AMERICA I 1 in thi this s country is exhibited the largest pyra mid in the world that of cholula near puebla it covers 40 acres and is about feet high on its summit was a temple and in ili the interior has been discovered a vault roofed with beams of f wood word containing skeletons and idols id idt 1 as several smaller pyramids surround this large one it appears to have been formed b by cutting a hill into an artificial shape its tensions Uen dimensions are immense being nearly three miles in it circumference cum ference and about feet high it is divided into terraces and slopes covered ith platforms stages and bastions elevated one above the other and all formed with large 1 stones skillfully fully cut and joined without any cement in some respects the style of architecture resembles the gothic being massive and durable in other respects it resembles the egyptian yet the general construction manner and style of architecture is lif merent ferent from anything hitherto described in the world As in ili egypt hieroglyphics on stone denote remarkable events which no man haryet has yet been able to decipher architecture sculpture painting and all the arts that adorn civilized life have haic flourished in this country at a period far remote there is evidence sufficient to prove that those cities were in in ruins at least 16 or 1800 years ago in palenque is the remains of an altar aver which grows an air immense immense cedar whose hose powerful roots enshrine it the tho whole city is overgrown with mahogany and cedar trees of enormous size the eccentric circles of some of these trees the well known cycles for a year have been counted which showed that they were more than 1800 years old and there were indications of another generation of trees having baving in i I 1 serui sprung rig up before them how few reflect on the he fact that america is an old dominion the seat of an ancient mighty |