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[[blue pencil strikethrough starts at top of page and extends through 3/4 of copy]] [[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]] [[end of blue-pencil strikeout]] The mountain is the greatest monument to the enterprise, [[en ?]] as Culture of the race now found on the American Continent