Identifier: ridpathshistoryo01ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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round, the relies of vast structures ,:ndbattlements, the position of which canbe plainly traced on the earth. Among the monuments on this high 364 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. plain of the Andes four principal struc-tures, or at least the foundations oflsMng lhem, have been developed character of the f ^ o-rollnd. They ruin called the & Fortress. ;u-c Known to antiqua- ries by the names of the Fortress, theTemple, the Palace, and the Hall ofJustice—from the purposes which con-jecture has assigned to them respec-tively. The greatest of the ruins is theFortress. It rises in the center of the substantial as that in the faces of theterrace. If the traveler takes his stand on thesummit of this tremendous monument and looks to the north, he Features of the finds at a short distance an- E££dt£ii£other rectangular mound, of Justice,measuring at the base four hundred andforty-five by three hundred and eighty-eight feet. The outline of the structureis marked by rows of stones set erect in
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o;,i> PERUVIAN STRUCTURE.—Ruins of Fortress, on Titicaca Islanu. plain, terrace on terrace, to the heightof fifty feet. The mound is rectangu-lar, having a base measurement of sixhundred and fifty feet in length andfour hundred and fifty feet in width.The faces of the terraces are laid withmassive stones, which are carefully andskillfully cut and dovetailed the one intothe other in such a way as to make themimmovable for ages and ages. On eachside, running out from the base, is a vaststone platform, known in architecture asan apron, in which the masonry is as the earth, some of them as rude as thoseof Stonehenge, and others carved withskill. These are the outer supports ofthe structures which were reared within.Some of the monoliths are as much asfourteen feet above the earth, and aresomething more than two by four feet intheir other dimensions. This is thestructure to which antiquaries havegiven the name of the Temple. ThePalace next attracts the attention, and isspecially noted

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