The building measure forty-three feet front and twenty-three feet deep, and is still strong and substantial. Above the cornice it was richly ornamented, but the ornaments are now much decayed. It has three doorways, which open into a corridor running the whole width of the building; and along the top of the back wall was a stone tablet, with a row of hieroglyphics extending all along the wall. Many of them were defaced, and, from their height, in an awkward position to copy; but we had a scaffold erected, and obtained copies of the whole. The plate opposite represents these hieroglyphics, so far as they could be made out. When not distinct, to avoid misleading they are not given at all. Under the hieroglyphics, in the plate, is given a plan of the building, with its terrace and staircase. It has a back corridor, consisting of three chambers, all of which retain the marks of painting; and, from the convenience of its arrangements, with the platform of the terrace for a promenade, and the view of a fine open country in front, but for the greater convenience of being near the hacienda we should have been tempted to take up our abode in it. [Engraving 44: Hieroglyphics] [Transcriber's Note: The text within the engraving is as follows: Above first row of hieroglyphics: _The Hieroglyphics commence at this end and continue in an uninterrupted line to the end._ Above second row of hieroglyphics: _Recommence here._ At end of hieroglyphics: _94 in. End of Line of Hieroglyphcs._ _Ground plan of the Building containing the row of Hieroglyphics which are place over the three inner doorways._ Within ground plan: (width:)_Platform 62 (depth:) feet 56 feet._ At right of ground plan: A _First Room in which are the Hieroglypics. Room 39 ft. 6 in. long by 7 ft. 6 in. broad._ B B B _Small inner rooms with remains of painting._ Lower left of engraving: _CHICHEN-ITZA._ Across bottom of engraving: _Scale in feet._] At the short distance of two hundred feet is the building represented in the following engraving. The platform of the terrace was sixty-four feet square, the building had three rooms, but both terrace and building are ruined, and the view is presented only because it was so picturesque that Mr. Catherwood could not resist the temptation to draw it. [Engraving 45: Picturesque View] All these buildings are within three hundred yards of the staircase of the Monjas; from any intermediate point all are in full sight; the field is open, and intersected by cattle-paths; the buildings, staircases, and terraces were overgrown, but Indians being at hand in sufficient force, they were easily cleared, and the whole was finished with a despatch that had never before attended our progress.