The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . and which we shall meet at Palenque, Tikal,and particularly Ake and Izamal in the Yucatan peninsula. Tower No. 2, some 32 feet to the south-east of the palace,is a ruinous mass, but must have been far more importantthan the first. Nothing remains save fragments of walls, soshapeless as to make it difficult to draw an approximate planof the building. To the north, however, a flight of steps 204 The Ancient Cities of the New World. In fair preservation allows us to reconstruct the
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The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . and which we shall meet at Palenque, Tikal, and particularly Ake and Izamal in the Yucatan peninsula. Tower No. 2, some 32 feet to the south-east of the palace, is a ruinous mass, but must have been far more importantthan the first. Nothing remains save fragments of walls, soshapeless as to make it difficult to draw an approximate planof the building. To the north, however, a flight of steps 204 The Ancient Cities of the New World. In fair preservation allows us to reconstruct the first storey. Thefour sides were probably similar, having doors opening on thestairs by which the terrace was reached, giving access to fourrooms, now underground, of about 8 feet by 6 feet 8 inches. Ourdrawing eives the stairs and the entrance to one of the rooms.In this tower the ornamentation must have been as peculiar as thatof No. I, as shown by an enormous unbroken fragment of walllying on the ground, representing the full-size figure of a man, whose fine proportions are very remarkable. The upper portion. ORNAMENTATION OF SOUTH-EAST TOWER, COMALCALCO. of the body, the fore-arm, and part of the leg are wanting ; ofthe clothing nothing remains save the girdle and a bit on thethigh. The statue had presumably no other covering but themaxtli, as is the case at Palenque in the decoration of the innerwing of the palace. This tower (No. 2), with its flight of steps and its platformon which rose the body of the edifice, answers the descriptionof similar monuments at Cozumel and along the seaboard givenby Oviedo and Grijalvas chaplain ; and both towers and palaces, as also the temples we shall visit later, must have gleamed on COMALCALCO. 205 the astonished gaze of the Spaniards, as did those of the maritimecities in Yucatan. We know that the first were inhabited at thetime of the Conquest; have we not the right to affirm as muchfor Comalcalco? And if Comalcalco was inhabited, what