The favorite beverage was chocolatl , flavored with vanilla and different spices. The fermented juice of the maguey, with a mixture of sweets and acids, supplied various agreeable drinks of different degrees of strength. We find a strong resemblance between the form of arch used in the architecture of Central America and that of the oldest buildings of Greece. Of all those that have survived to the present day the treasure-house at Atreus is the most venerable. The same form of arch is found among the ruins of that interesting people, the Etruscans.
Etruscan vaults are of two kinds.
The more curious and probably the most ancient are false arches , formed of horizontal courses of stone, each a little overlapping the other, and carried on until the aperture at the top could be closed by a single superincumbent slab. It is sufficient to say, in conclusion, that Mexico, under European rule, or under her own leaders, has never again risen to her former standard of refinement, wealth, prosperity, or civilization. The Egyptian Colony.