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PALENQUE AND THE PHANTOM CITY.

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Leaving Campeche, the steamer moves slowly on to Frontera, at the mouth of the river Tabasco, which once bore, and ought

1 Palace. 4 Temple of the Cross. 7 Aqueduct.
2 Temple of the Three Tablets. 5 Temples of the Sun. 8 Ruins.
3 Temple of the Beau Relief. 6 Ruined Pyramids. 9 Ruins.

to retain, the name of Grijalva, who discovered it in 1518,—where the green and muddy waters, laden with the branches and