BY STEPHEN SALISBURY, JR. From Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, of April 26, 1876, and April 25, 1877. PRIVATELY PRINTED. WORCESTER: PRESS OF CHARLES HAMILTON. 1877. WITH THE RESPECTS OF THE WRITER....

[Proceedings of American Antiquarian Society, April 26, 1876.] The most comprehensive and accurate map of Yucatan is that which has been copied for this pamphlet. In the several volumes of travel, descriptive of Maya ruins, are to be found plans more or less complete, intended to illustrate special journeys, but they are only partial in their treatment of this interesting country. The Plano de Yucatan , herewith presented—the work of Sr. Dn. Santiago Nigra de San Martin—was published in 1848, an

The Discovery of a Statue called Chac-Mool, and the Communications of Dr. Augustus Le Plongeon concerning Explorations in the Yucatan Peninsula. [Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, April 25, 1877.] The most perfect remains of a high degree of early civilization on this continent are to be found in ruins in the central portions of America. Proofs of the extraordinary advancement of the inhabitants of those regions, in architecture and art, at an early period, are not derived alone o