In one of the caves was a human skeleton, blanched white and clean, and near it some one has stuck a cross, made of two bits of stick, in the crevices of a heap of stones.
Returning to the entrance of the quarry, well loaded with stone hammers and knives, we sat down to breakfast, in a cave, where our man had established himself with the horses.

An attempt on my part to cut German sausage with an obsidian knife proved a decided failure.
We had already been struck by the appearance of the two pyramids of Teotihuacan, when we passed by Otumba on our way to Mexico.

The hills which skirt the plain are so near them as to diminish their apparent size; but even at a distance they are conspicuous objects.

Now, when we came close to them, and began by climbing to their summits, and walking round their terraces, to measure ourselves against them, we began gradually to realize their vast bulk; and this feeling continually grew upon us.

Modern architecture strives to unite the greatest possible effect with the least cost; and the modern churches of southern Europe and Spanish America, with their fine tall facades fronting the street, and insignificant little buildings behind, show this idea in its fullest development.