"In the midst of desolation and ruin we looked back at the past, cleared away the gloomy forest, fancied every building perfect, with its terraces and pyrimids, its sculptured and painted ornaments, grand, lofty, and imposing, and overlooking an immense inhabited plain; we called back into life the strange people who gazed at us in sadness from the walls; pictured them, in fanciful costumes and adorned with plumes and feathers, ascending the terraces of the Palace and the steps leading to the temples... In the romance of the world's history nothing ever impressed me more forcibly than the spectacle of this once great and lovely city, overturned, desolate, and lost; discovered by accident, overgrown with trees for miles around, and without even a name to distinguish it."
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