...SCULPTURE ON STEP OF HIEROGLYPHIC STAIRWAY. (See page 22.) APPENDIX. 47 [TRANSLATION.] RUINS OF COPAN. NEAR here, on the road to the city of San Pedro, in...great population and of superb edifices, of such skill that it appears they could never have been built by a people as rude as the natives of that province....

...about 3,000 feet The earliest description of them was given by Palacio, in 1576, who speaks of them as ruins and vestiges of a great population, and of superb...edifices, of such skill and splendor, that it appears that they never could have been built by the natives of that province. From Palacio's visit for two...

...about 3,000 feet The earliest description of them was given by Palacio, in 1576, who speaks of them as ruins and vestiges of a great population, and of superb...edifices, of such skill and splendor, that it appears that they never could have been built by the natives of that province. From Palacio's visit for two...

...member of the Audiencia de Guatemala, addressed to Philip II. of Spain on March 8, 1576. It runs : " On the road to the city of San Pedro, in the first...vestiges of a great population and of superb edifices of splendour as it would appear they never could have been built by the natives of that province." From...

...Tabasco." It is quite certain that Copan was in ruins in 1576, because Palacio's letter continues, " On the road to the city of San Pedro, in the first...vestiges of a great population and of superb edifices and splendour as it would appear they could never have been built by the natives of that province."...

...Tabasco." It is quite certain that Copan was in ruins in 1576, because Palacio's letter continues, " On the road to the city of San Pedro, in the first...province of Honduras called Copan, are certain ruins and vestigesVof a great population and of superb edifices and splendour as it would appear they could never...

...province which lies in the direction of Graclas ft Dlos in Honduras, are the Chontal Indiana." Page 01 :" Near here, on the road to the city of San Pedro, In...are certain ruins and vestiges of a great population • • •" upon earlier maps in various regards. It is the first of the series here considered to...

...them all. (. \>p&n wan visited in If>70 by Diego fiarcia de Palacio,' who saw there "ruins vfvatigea of A great population and of superb edifices, of such skill and splendor that it Appears that they could never have been built by the natives of that prwtaee," The natives informed him "that...