Interesting Discovery.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 107, 1 April 1884, Page 2

Interesting Discovery.

Ancient ruins, which surpass anything of the kiud yet discovered on the American continent, have l»een found in Sonora, a- out four leagues south-east ofMagdelena, Mexico. There is one pyramid which has a aae of 4350 feet, and rises to a height of 750ft. It has a winding roadway from the l.ottom leading by an easy grade to the top, wide euoiighJpJ^c^iagesAQ-pa^meKr which is many miles in lenatK. "The outer walls of t,hc roadway iSre laid in solid a ,somjJ,Q)^. Iwge^bjo^^^muite in rubble, and the circles "are as uniform and the grade as regular as could be made at this date by the best engineers. To the east of the pyramid a short distance is a ifionntain about the same .size, and rising to about the same height. QriJHi sjide^'of this cji'dujijtat^} a people ■of an tirtkrtdwn age have' 'cue 'hundreds upon hundreds of jp^m^jfrptti to 10 ta 16 io 18 feet ' If nreke rooms i are cut out. of solidrstone, and so even and true are -the walls, floor, and ceiling, and leyel, r «S:to:dt!%]Vj!n > iation. Tjiere are.no windows to ( tj)e ij^bs, and i ut one entrance, w]4chis;ahyays f om the top. Thexooms are eight feet high -from fiqor tooeiling. „ Qg, the walls are and i^jwesentations of human forxhsT . witn fa feec and hands of "human. Deings cii^in stone in different places, Stone implements of eVery? desferiplioii are io -"By 'found in great'hiinibers in and ; abp&b' r ttVVooms. It l is,of: course, a insitterofdtoife'speculation as to who the ialiabitahW : we e, and in what age they lived. Some say $fcey were the ancestor of otliej.^ayos, a race of Indians who still inhubit Southj^p.Sonp^, Jhajyebiue eyes, fair 4,kin, and ligbt iat^iffl are said .*?, b ,« a mpi^l, in4u^rjpus >( anjtl A/rugal i-ace' ofpeopfe^ wKb 'nivr a Written language, and know something of mathematics. — 'Standard.'