Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-12-04

Facade OF Temple: $40 feet; walls
to first cornice 25 feet high.
Three Doorways: Center, 8 feet, 6
inches wide, feet, 10 inches high;
two lateral doorways the same height
as the center, and 6 feet, 6 inches
vide. (
Colonnade, or Second Platform:
each IL feet high, and Is inches in
diameter: in two rows. the columns
10 feet apa,t. aa
The Single Altar-Column: feet
in diameter, and 60 feet high, in CEN
ter of area.
Base of First Terrace: 2,560 feet.
Sculptured Walls of the Temple:
10000 superficial feet.
The Three Artificial Terraces con-
tain 72,SO0 cubic feet
Certainly highly cultivated peo-
pie must have designed and built
this immense structure. TheNs Rev.
Mr.. Jones sees in these ruins the ar
chitecture of Egypt and the Nile,
while Mr.. Stephens writes that "they
are different from the works of any
other known people-of a new order,
and entirely and absolutely anoma-
lous, they stand alone" / present
herewith an accurate pi ture of the
ruins at UXmal as recently seen.
This lengthy digression, In rather
wide field Of conjecture and specula-
ton, has only now brought forth ano-
ther people who knew how to spin
and weave. When the Spaniards in
vaded and conquered Mexico they re-
vealed government and people who
had occupied that country for long
years, dynasty after dynasty. Pres
cott says on one occasion as they
(Cortez's army approached an Aztec
city, they saw abundant signs of cul-
tivation in the trim gardens and or
chards that lined both sides of the
road. They were met by parties of
| the natives of either sex, the women
as we'll as the men, bearing punches
and wreaths of flowers with which
they decorated the neck of the gene
rails charger, and hung chaplet of
roses about his helmet; flowers were
the delight of these people. Many of
the women appeared, from their rich
er dress and numerous attendants, to
be persons Of rank. They were clad
In robes of fine cotton, curiously col
ored, which reached from the neck
to the ankles, the men wore a sort of
mantle of the same rich material, "a
la Morisca, in the Moorish fashion,
over their shoulders, and belts and
SdSIltS dUOuI IHclI lOluS. bODIl SSAeS
had jewels and ornaments of gold
around their necks, while their ears
ans nostrils were. perforated with
rings OF the same Metal.
Montezuma sent to the King and
Queen OF Spain generous gifts OF
! these fine. cottons. and mantles of
lfeather-work, the delicate and rich
colored dyes Of which m 1T, readily
vie with the most beautifu paintings.
When opened and exhibited at the
Court of Spain nothing like such Gu
rious and elegant fabrics had ever
before been seen in Europe, and were
looked on with wonder and admira-
ton; of course, all made by hand,
and briefly described in the poets
apt lines:
Whose texture cen the search of
gods deceives;
Fine as the filmy web the spider
| weaves."
In the beginning the question was
asked, Where did the led man at the
landfall learn how to spin and
weave? At the end the Inquiry is
renewed and there Is no intelligent
reply. 1t can only be conjectured
that the far Eastern art has been oral
| ly communicated from generation to
generation and so has circled the
globe. EE
Amid all the continuous disappoint-
ments, running through nearly two
decades, there was daily preseryed.in
the marvellous life OF Columbus two
prominent thoughts:
| First, the liked belief in the exist.
ence OF lands and populations to the
westN aid.
Second, the steady aim and pur
pose to spread Christianity among