Researches, concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America : with descriptions and views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! . ?fc* y //,- 5^L^ ,/? //<£< 153 RUINS OF MIGUITLAN, on MITLA, IN THE PROVINCE OF OAXACA, PLAN AND ELEVATION. PLATES XLIX & L. After having given in this work the descrip-tion of so many barbarous monuments, which arc-interesting merely as they are connected withhistory, I feel some pleasure in bringing forwardto notice a building constructed by the Tzapo-tecks, anciently inhabiting Oaxaca, and coveredwith ornament
Researches, concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America : with descriptions and views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! . ?fc* y //,- 5^L^ ,/? //<£< 153 RUINS OF MIGUITLAN, on MITLA, IN THE PROVINCE OF OAXACA, PLAN AND ELEVATION. PLATES XLIX & L. After having given in this work the descrip-tion of so many barbarous monuments, which arc-interesting merely as they are connected withhistory, I feel some pleasure in bringing forwardto notice a building constructed by the Tzapo-tecks, anciently inhabiting Oaxaca, and coveredwith ornaments remarkable for their edifice is known in the country under thename of the Palace of Mitla. It stands on thesouth-east of the city of Oaxaca, or Guaxaca, atten leagues distance, on the road to Tehuante-pec, in a granitic country. Mitla is only a con- 154 traction of the word Miguitlan, which signifies,in the Mexican language, place of desolation,vlace of wo. This term appears to have beenwell chosen for a site so savage and lugubrious,that, according to the narrative of travellers, thewarbling of birds is there scarcely ever Tzapoteck Indi
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