Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — An Interesting Mexican Ruin. [ARTICLE]

An Interesting Mexican Ruin.

An interesting ruin in Mexico Is thus described: The hill is about 700 feet high, and half way up there was a layer of gypsum, which as white as anew and may be cut into any conceivable shape, yet sufficiently hard to retain its shape after being out In this layer of stone are cut hundreds and hundreds of rooms fr«m 6xlo to 16x18 feet square. So even and true are the walls, floor and ceiling, so plumb and |evel, as to defy variation. There are no windows in the rooms, and but one entrance, which is always from the top. The rooms are but eight feet high from floor to ceiling, the stone is so white that it seems almost transparent, and the rooms are not at all dark.—Chicago Herald. i