A LOST CITY OF MEXICO.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1138, 12 February 1884, Page 3

A LOST CITY OF MEXICO.

Ancient ruins which surpass anything of the kind yet discovered on the American Continent, have been found in Sonora, about four miles south-east of Magdalena, Mexico. There is one pyramid which has a base of 4850 ft, and rises to a height of 750 ft. It has a winding roadway from the bottom leading by an easy grade to the top, ,vide enough for carriages to pass over, which is many miles in length. The outer walls of the roadway are laid in solid masonry from huge blocks of granite 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 small mountain 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 hundreds of rooms, from sft by 10ft to 16ft or 18ft square. These rooms are cut out of solid stone, and so even and true are the walls, floor, and ceiling, so plumb and level, as to defy variation. There are no windows to the rooms, and but one entrance, which is always from the top. The rooms are Bft high from floor to ceiling. On the walls are numerous hieroglyphics and representations of human forms, with feet and hands of human beings cut in the stone in different places. Stone implements of every description are to be found in great numbers in and about the rooms. It is, of course, a matter of much speculation as to who the inhabitants were, and in what age they lived. Some say they were the ancestors ortho Mayos, a race of Indians who siill inhabit Southern Sonora, who have blue eyes, fair skin, and light hair, and are said to bo a moral, industrious and frugal race of people, who have a written language, and know something of mathematics.