A LOST CITY OF MEXICO.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5101, 23 May 1885, Page 4

A LOST CITY OF MEXICO.

Ancient ruins, which surpass anything of the kind yet discovered on the American continent, hare been found in Sonora about four leagues south-east of Magualena, Mexico. There ia one pyramid which has a base of 4350 feet, and rises to a height of 750 feet. It has a winding roadway from the bottom leading by an easy grade to the top, wide 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 engineer. 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 hare cut hundreds upon hundreds of rooms from 5 by 10 to 16 or 18.feet square. These rooms are cut oat 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 eight feet 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. Some 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 are the ancestors of the Mayos, a race of Indians who still inhabit Southern Sonora, who have blue eyes, fair skin, and light hair, and are said to be a moral, industrious and a i frugal race of people, who have a written language and know something of mathematics. '