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Monte Alban 8 was more prominent than the others and one was [[immpertant?]]. Sometimes two opposite piles are nearly equal, two being large & two small & rarely three are alike, as a rule in slopes the outer pile is the longest the sides being less important. These appear to have been superstructures in all [[insertion]] or nearly all [[/insertion]] cases traces of walls and of cement floors; the centre obscured by low breaks of debris in the rugged [[?]] outcropping around the edges all that can be said of these buildings is that they were rectangular, opened onto the