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might be arranged with the Niquirans. It is evident that the ground-plan of
the edifice has been a broad oval, and it is highly probable, on account of the
back of the statues not being elaborated, but only roughly cut, that it has not
been open, but enclosed by walls, the statues serving as pilasters. However,
it must be admitted that this latter circumstance is far from being proved.
The figures A and B, being larger than the others in the periphery, and more
deeply fixed in the ground, may^ possibly have stood at each side of the
entrance or perhaps of a flight of steps, leading up into the temple. The
roof was probably supported by a plate of stone or wood, carrying light
rafters, covered with palm-leaves or such like materials.
STONE-MOUND 2.
This mound, also oval, was much smaller than mound 1; its longer
diameter was eighteen meters, the shorter twelve. It was situated due E. of 1,
separated from it by a depression in the ground, ten to twelve meters in
breadth, and was made up of more or less irregular stones. It is impossible
to decide whether this mound has also been surrounded by a series of statues,
and in such a case, by which, because even those statues which were found
in the neighborhood of it, did not remain in situ, but were overthrown, and
more or less broken. The same was also the case with the four remaining
stone-mounds. Thus I shall only briefly indicate their situations, and then
return to the description of the statues in the order that they were measured
and delineated.
STONE-MOUND 3.
It was situated due S. of mound 2, and held rather the same dimensions,
but it was less symmetrical in form. Near it only R and R 1, two large
stone-slabs, lids, or parts of a wall, ornamented with human figures in
high-relief, were found.
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