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Title: Travels amongst American Indians : their ancient earthworks and temples : including a journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a visit to the ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and Uxmal
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Brine, Lindesay, 1834-1906
Subjects: Indians
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston & Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n area of about forty acres, surrounded by anembankment whose existing average height slightlyexceeds five feet. There are eight entrances orgateways placed at equal distances from each other.They are guarded by mounds, made sufiiciently wideto extend a little beyond the width of the openingsand thus cover the approach. These mounds are ofthe same height as the ramparts, and are placedwithin them. They were made flat upon the top,and possibly the platform thus made was useful fordefensive operations. At one end of the inclosure the ramparts leave theoctagon, and form two parallel banks leading intothe circle B. This approach is nearly one hundredyards long and about fifteen yards wide. At itstermination the banks turn to the right and left,and form a circular work containing an area oftwenty acres. At the outer edge of the circle andopposite to the entrance, is placed a large flat-toppedmound, attached to, but outside the general line ofthe banks. This motuid, according to my measure-
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NEWABK INCLOSURES. 67 merits, was twelve feet in perpendicular height, andhad a platform on its summit which was about onehundred and eighty feet long by thirty feet wide.In consequence of being several feet higher than theembankments and outside their line, it commandsthe approaches to that part of the inclosure. Thereis no exterior or interior ditch to either of theseworks. From the central, or eastern opening of the octa-gon a long low line of parallel embankments connectit with another group of earthworks which, in theplan, is marked c. The inclosure has been, in manyparts, destroyed or levelled, but it is possible totrace its original form. It appears to have been anexact square, containing an area, of twenty acres.This square is connected with the circular work dby parallel banks in the same manner as the octagonis joined to the circle B, but they are of greaterlength and magnitude. At the entrance, where thebanks diverge outwards and begin to form the curveof the circle, they r

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