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Show Rul an of a City In Toxa. During the survey of the Kansas City, Eli'iUKJflnd Mexican railroad, the surveyors sur-veyors cunio across the mins of the city of (iran (luivera. bnovvn already to tho early Spanish explorers, but seldom visited vis-ited by white men of tho present day. These ruins at tlrnn Guivora aro of gigantic gi-gantic stone buildings of magnificent proiMtrtiotiH and built in a very substantial substan-tial manner. One was four acres in extent. ex-tent. Every indication around the ruins was evidence of the existence 1 1 ere at one time of a dense population, although now it is foriv miles from water. To the south lien the lava flow, called by the local Hiula(iou the Moloais. It is n sea of molten black glass, which has cooled, retaining its ragged and fantastically shaped waves from ton to twelve feet high. It ia about forty miles long and from one to ten miles wide. For miles on all sides the country lies buried in fine white iislies, to a depth ns yet not reached by any digging. No legend exists as to the destruction or abandonment of the mined city, but one of tho engineers of the surveying party advances the theory that tiran tiuivera was in existence when the terrific volcanic eruption took place which ko desolated nntl burned up tbe surrounding country. The secrets of tlio early civilization of prehistoric America elude our possession; yet that such a civilization existed, we havo abundant proof. Tho many mysterious ruins in Central America may yet yield some information of tho people who built and inhabited thorn, nntl perished, leaving no satisfactory memorial of their oxisteuco. JJemorest. |
