THE DEAD CITY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 78, 1 April 1924, Page 7

THE DEAD CITY

FOUND IN MAYA LAND

VAST MASSES OF STONE-WORK

RUINS MILES IN EXTENT.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.— COPIRIGHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received Ist April, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 31st March.

The "Daily Mail" publishes an interestnijf story of Mr. Hedges, regarding his discovery of an ancient city in British Honduras. Starting from Punta Gorda on an arduous ride through dense bush, the ' party often had to hack their way with machetes. The horses were frequently bogged. Finally they arrived at the Maya Indian village of San Pedro. The people were found to be extremely primitive. The women do not wear clothes above the waist. With four Indian guides they cut their way through the bush, arrived at a river, which they .crossed in dugouts, and cut through jungle for two miles. Then they arrived unexpectedly at a high mound. The Indians felled tire surrounding trees,, and disclosed a vast trunca r j ,moV ncI> feet high, faced with solid blocks of limestone and sandstone. Clearing away other bushes they found a- series of terraces in ladderlike tiers, all standing upon a stupendous terrace measuring at least a square mile with six pyramids upon it. Subsequently they discovered an imposing stone stairway, 65 feet broad, leading to a stonefaced structure, 132 feet by 36~ioet. llie Indians declare that tile ruins extend for miles in every direction. Mr. Hedges is returning to England to confer with the British Museum authorities Ihe rums are so vast that they will entail years of exploration. <