RELICS OF ANCIENT MEXICAN HISTORY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1046, 10 January 1884, Page 4

RELICS OF ANCIENT MEXICAN HISTORY.

Ancient ruins, which a London paper says surpass - anything of the land yetdiscovered on the American continent,

have teen found in Sonora, about four leagues, of /Magdalena, Mexico. 'iliere is bne pyramid which has a base ;qf r 43soft»-jand rises to a height Of 750 ft It has a winding roadway leadihg by ah easy thg'tep, 1 wide enough for cartfiies to piass over, which is many miles walls ofrtbe.road.piasonry from huge blocks of granite in rubble, and grade as regularascould be made at this date by the: .best engineers. To a short dis* sPgg’''jnouhtein about the same size, and rising to about the same height On the sides of this mountain a people of .an unknown age have cut fcnndrgda : trpon hundreds of rooms. Aofh'sfiby i oft to. 16ft or 18ft square, ' These rooins ire cut but of solid stone, SndaO even and true are the walls, 'flbdipaod Ceiling/ so plumb and level, as to defy variation; There are no windows. .to.the, rooms, and but one }*. always from the top The rood's are: Bft high from floor to effing, p Qn ;the walls are numerous Jjfc and -representations of tinmat.feinn, ~ with feet and hands of human; beings cut’in the'Stone in dif- - farrrnt places. Stone implements, of . Gritty l description 7 are 'to be'found in and about the rooms. a matter of much spe- ' CUlation as to whom the inhabitants irf what age they lived. aavt they>weretbe ancestors of of Indian's ivho still in-

habit Southern Sonora, who have blue eyes* fair skin, and light hair, and are said to be a moral, industrious and frugal race of people, who have a written language, and know something ot mathematics.