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Remarkable Ancient Ruins

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
December
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Chihuahua (Mrxin.) EnterprUe report the discocry of Bome remarkable aucieut ruins on ;i hi!l or imiiint :iin four enguee smilli of MagdalenS, in Sonora. The liill is about 700 feet high. and halfway u) there is a layer of jrypsuni, wliioli is ug white 118 snmv.'aml niay be out into any couceivable sluipt-, yt sulllciently liiird M ïftiiin Ita shapo afler bi'iuü cut. In tli is layer of stoue are cut hundreds upou bundredn ot rooms froii) 6x10 to lti xl8 feet squiirc. So even und true re the walls, floor, and ceilDijfj so ilump und leve), as to dcfy variaüon. Theie are no windows in the rooms, and but one eDtrHiice, whlch is alwuys trom tlie top. The rooms ure but elght feet blgh trom Üoor to ceilinK. Tfie slono is bo white tliat it beems iltBOSI IrjinspaWDt, and the rooms ure üot at all dark On the waÜH oi these rooms are ntimerous hitroglyplighic and rtpreseiitntlons of human 1 - ings cut in the stone Indifferent places; but, strange to ay, nll the handi have tive lingera and a tliunil). and the feet Save m i("'K. Charcoal is foiind on the iloc.rs of inany óf the loóms; fiiTpléirténtg of every de-ci i it ion ure to b IuiiihI. The liouses or rooms are one above the other to three or mnre StOTtBS liljfl, but benveen eaeh story is n o; or recesa the full width of the room below, so tlmt tlicy present the appe.iranoe ot UMfl steps leadiug up ttie inouotain.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News