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Title: The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Indians of Central America
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Yucatan, Merida, and the Maya Race. 275 pleasing contrast to the plain facade. The interior of thechurch, 289 feet long, is imposing ; it consists of three naveswith round arches, supported by twelve immense columns,and twenty of like dimensions imbedded in the walls. Smallchapels run along the sides, and the structure altogetherbears the impress of solidity which is so conspicuous a featureof the conquerors work. To the south of the square standsMontejos house, bearing the date of 1541 ; it is tlie oldestin Merida, and an interesting specimen of that epoch. Itmay be worthy of mention that the sculptures in this houseare as defaced as those of the Indian monuments, whichseems to indicate similarity of date. The pillars on each sideof the entrance bear aloft two Spanish soldiers, whilst on thefirst floor, by the window, knights armed cap-a-pie are standingon two recumbent Indians, personating the subjugation of therace. The facade with its columns, statues, arabesques, andshields, is a

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