The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-01

co MetaIJalOyucca, and Is situated some
hundred miles west of Tuxpan, in the State
of Vera Cruz.
SECOND VISIT TO THE LOST CITY.
Entering the jungle at the same point
did the previous explorers, the party pr
ceeded slowly with their surveys.
ueighboring Indians finding that their
gends were all false and their fears grOuu
less, became valuable assistants. and
numbers being employed, the work
to progress rapidly. After encouu
two or three lakes of considerable e
several rivers and swamps and bayot
Vulnerable, lofty mountain was
which was assembled, and the trees
top soon felled, permitting an unint
view of the valley below. The
and love'iness of the scene is descf
perfectly bewiIdering. Mr.. Chapm
of the American artist, who accom-
the expedition, writes that during his
life in Italy he never looked upon
scape so enchantingly beautiful. and
same time SO grand and striking.
time, however, could be spent in view
the enchanting valley; the great work
still before the party, and the axemen we
soon pushed forward upon the trail towa
the lost city.
THE SURROUNDING FOREST.
AS the explorers cut their way through
the forest the trees grew larger and old;
showing that the Verges of the forest
the last to be abandoned, and had been
tiyated long after the Interior had becons
wilderness. Most of the beasts of pre-
natives of the American continent. as we
as animals peculiar to tropical CLING
were seen in great numbers, and ihs
innumerable, many of them before unkr
to naturalists, gave great annoyance e
adventurers.
Gen. Lyon writes that bottom land
the Mississippi river do not compare
those he found in the Metaltaloyucca
try, either for soil, verdure or impene
bility, frequently his whole party not
able to make more than five hundred
of surveys per day.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY.
After a dangerous and wearisome B
the lost city was finally reached, and 70
first time the foot of the Anglo-Saxon pl
ed its streets. With awe zAndq
party gazed upon the works
race. Trees hundreds of J
growing among the ruins, 81
city had been abandoned befofa
Cortez. and the architecture of d
is of an order before unknowI
Gs,latiaept, -Some few houses ar
able seae5 Of preservation, and
able, while their walls are ad szsu
paintings Of rare beauty and merit Car
doorways and images abound in rystsset,
evincing in their former inN dts !
knowledge of the fine arts nc
the most civilized aboriginal
remarkable of all is, some of
indicates among the people the
the Christian religion. Places
are said to be numerous, and up
verse of man is carefully carved
blem of Christianity-the cross.
Whence this race or what their fate
mystery. The existence of this city vi
unknown to the Aztecs, and not traditio
concerning them is extant among the In.
dians, who, when spoken to respecting
them, reply, antique" Antique"
The doors of the houses were generally
closed, showing the abandonment of the
city to have been q preconcerted movement
but whether this was caused by civil wars,
fears of savage foes or earthquake, is mere
conjecture.
General Lyon will make thorough ex-
ploration of the Metaltsloyuca country, and
his report will be received with rare inter
est. IL the few letters received at the Capt.
| tai from the party state facts, the lost city
will cause a commotion in the literary
world, as its development must throw light
upon the history of the lost races of Ameri-
ca. The Spanish party who visited it ia
| October say the ruins bear little resemblance
to those of Yucatan, or any other portion oi
Spanish America; and their paintings and
sculpture show them to have been fully al
far advanced in the arts and sciences as the
most enlightened European nation of thei
own day.
The statements OF the Spanish party must
be received with many grains Of allowance
Americans who have travelled through y
catan and other old settled States of d
concur in the opinion that every
greatly exaggerated, and that the
is but the ruins of some Spanishs
serted by its inhabitants during
insurrection early in the prese IN
No record of such city is to be fos
the Mexican archives, aud if it wer
| Spanish rule its existence had fad
the public mind. The country
with ruins Of most remarkable e
and which a casual observer