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monte alban  5

however magnificent in area [[strikethrough]] tastes [[/strikethrough]] 
Mortuary tastes would not justify the enormous building and terrace making. Beside there is ample evidence of dwelling and the fields enclosed in the 
courts & built out about the margins [[insertion]] ^ of the summit [[/insertion]] are as rich as any on the Oaxaca valley. There are potshards, everywhere and mealing stones, evidences of domestic work are seen in all the lands.
Indeed it seems to me that the terracing implies gardening [[/strikethrough]] a work carried on today on [[/strikethrough]] and every available foot of ground level or steep must have been