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[[underscore]] Monte Alban [[/underscore]] 1

Milla excites wonder and pleases the imagination & gratifies the taste. Alban fills the beholder [[?]] with astonishment [[strikethrough]] at the magnitude of [[/strikethrough]] so far does its remains exceed the expectations of the [[strikethrough]] the work of mens hands [[/strikethrough]] possibilities of the native races
The mountain ^[[insert below line and struckthrough]] crest a mile long & nearly a [[/struckthrough insert]] is a colossal ruin, for mens hands have made it completely a work of art [[image: five-pointed star]]

[[strikethrough]] now, [[/strikethrough]] they have remodeled the broad & upper slope developing a bewildering [[strikethrough]] building [[?]] a magnificent [[/strikethrough]] crest. cluster
[[strikethrough]] growth [[/strikethrough]] 
[[strikethrough]] Mass [[/strikethrough]] 
courts   of terraces, pyramids & temples
[[strikethrough]] remodeling the upper slopes [[/strikethrough]] 
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The mountain is the greatest monument to the enterprise, [[en ?]] as Culture of the race now found on the American Continent