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Transcription
"Roundly hills, through the ruins runs a small
dirty mountain stream.
The workmanship preserved in the ruins shows
that these people knew how to do things. One
thinks their tools were of stone and if this is true
then art is all the more wonderful. The stone joints
are all close but not necessarily regular. On the
sides of the huge blocks at the bottom are large holes
evidently used to place levers thus to move the
stones in place. Because of this they needed their
axes to handle the material.
In the centre of the temples are large rooms
bounded by an outer fringe of smaller rooms. All
are ornamented by the mosaic of stones and other
figures. The cross + is present in several
designs.
The large pieces are not laid in plaster but
behind and between are piles of small little rocks
and apparently uncemented sand or adobe. It
is remarkable to note how accurately the figures
cut the stones. The tool marks look more like
scratching as if the stones had been rubbed
into form.
Prof. Schenck said a work was reserved