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It sloped inward as all the
walls do but was made up of
gigantic blocks of cut into
very irregular shapes or angles.
Many of the blocks in this wall
were 4 or 5 feet long by 2 or 3 wide.
One of the bignest stones had 12 angles.
And then was a triangular in
shape, the one figured in one of
N.B. papers. This large stone
irregular wall was under of a
green stone like serpentine
above which in places was
a narrow wall made of
andesite + of small regular
blocks. The joining fits
perfect in each case but
the older wall had large blocks
+ rougher on the surface. Many
of the surfaces were curved
slightly. This is the only
place in Cuzco where a
wall of this character was seen
afterwards me went along
other even walled streets
to the Temple of the Sun
which is now Santo Domingo
Cathedral, Here the wall seemed
about 20 feet high and made
of small square blocks of dark
desmablastic andesite. The