corner. All are covered with _stucco ornaments_, and one with _hieroglyphics_. The rest contain _figures_ in _bas relief_." * * * "There are several distinct and independent buildings. [Within the confines of the Temple] The principal of these is the TOWER, on the south side of the second court. This Tower is conspicuous by its height and proportions: the base is thirty feet square, and it has _three stories_. Entering over a heap of rubbish at the base, we _found within another Tower, distinct from the outer one_, and a stone staircase, so narrow that a large man could not ascend it. The staircase terminates against a dead stone ceiling, closing all further passage. _The whole Tower was a substantial stone structure_, and in its arrangements and purposes about as incomprehensible as the sculptured tablets. East of the Tower is another building, with two corridors, one richly decorated with _pictures in stucco, and having in the centre an elliptical tablet_. It is four feet long and three wide, _of hard stone, set in the wall_, and the SCULPTURE is in _bas relief_. Around it are the remains of a rich _stucco border_. The principal figure sits cross-legged (_i. e._ orientally) on a couch, ornamented with two leopards' heads: the attitude is easy, the physiognomy the same as that of the other personages, and the _expression calm and benevolent_. The figure wears around its neck a necklace of pearls [beads of gold?] to which is suspended a small medallion containing a face, perhaps for an image of the Sun." From the positive radii around the medallion (as presented by the artist) there can be no hesitation in distinctly stating that it was intended for an "image of the Sun." This is essential in identifying the analogy of Religious worship: it also gives further authority for the belief that this edifice was a Temple, and not a Palace. The _Tower_ of Palenque also aids this belief, for from its locality it would seem to have been used as a modern oriental minaret, from which the priests summoned the people to prayer. "Like every subject of sculpture we had seen in this country, the personage had earrings, bracelets on the wrists, and a girdle round the loins. The head-dress differs from most of the others at Palenque in that it wants the plume of feathers. Near the head are _three hieroglyphics_. The other figure, which seems that of a woman is sitting cross-legged [kneeling?] on the ground, richly dressed, and apparently in the act of _making an offering_. In this supposed offering is seen a plume of feathers, in which the head-dress of the principal personage is deficient. Over the head of the sitting personage are _four hieroglyphics_. _This is the only piece of Sculptured Stone about the the Palace_ (Temple) except those in the courtyard. Under it formerly stood a table [altar?] of which the impression against the wall is still visible."