Here, then, is distinctly stated--a pyramidal elevation having _four sides_, and detached from any other structure. Its measurement around the base is 1140 feet! "_This elevation was formerly faced with stone_, which has been thrown down by the growth of trees, and its form is hardly distinguishable. The building [we say _Temple_--not Palace,] stands (on this pyramidal elevation) with its face to the _East_, and measures _two hundred feet front, by one hundred and eighty feet deep_. Its height is not more than twenty-five feet, and all around it had _a broad projecting cornice of stone_. The front contained _fourteen doorways_, about _nine feet wide_ each, and the intervening piers [_i. e._ square columns] are between _six and seven feet wide_. On the left (in approaching the palace) eight piers have fallen down, and as also the corner on the right, and the terrace underneath is cumbered with ruins. But six piers remain entire, and the rest of the front is open. The building was _constructed of stone_, with a mortar of lime and sand, and _the whole front was covered with stucco and painted_." We believe this last manner (stuccoing) to have been ages _after_ the original structure was erected, and for the purpose of promulgating a new Religion. This important point will be investigated in a subsequent volume. It is only remarked here, that the reader may not be perplexed at _stone_ being covered with _stucco_, since in building, ancient or modern, it was only usual to cover _bricks_ with plaister or stucco. "The piers were ornamented with _spirited figures_ [in stucco] in bas-relief. On the top of one are _three_ hieroglyphics _sunk in the stucco_. It is enclosed by a richly ornamented border, about ten feet high and six wide, of which only a part remains. The stucco is of admirable consistency, _and hard as stone_. It was _painted_, [stained?] and in different places about, we discovered the remains of _red_, _blue_, _yellow_, _black_, _and white_."