The Boy Travellers in Mexico Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Northern and Central Mexico, Campeachey, and Yucatan, With a Description of the Republics of Central America and of the Nicaragua Canal

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A CHAPTER ON ARCHÆOLOGY.--NUMBER AND EXTENT OF THE RUINED CITIES OF YUCATAN.--MAYAPAN, THE ANCIENT CAPITAL.--PYRAMID OF MAYAPAN.--AKÉ AND ITS PICOTÉ.--AN ANCIENT WHIPPING-POST.-- PYRAMIDS AT AKÉ.--HISTORICAL CONUNDRUMS.--KABAH AND ITS MOUND.--SCULPTURE OF A MAN ON HORSEBACK.--CHICHEN-ITZA.-- CHURCH, NUNNERY, CASTLE, AND TENNIS-COURT AT CHICHEN.-- EXTENT AND CHARACTER OF THE SCULPTURES.--STORY OF THE CONQUEST OF CHICHEN.--SKILFUL RETREAT OF THE SPANISH CAPTAIN.--OTHER RUINED CITIES.--IDOLS OF COPAN.--PROBABILITIES OF CITIES YET TO BE DISCOVERED. 513