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578 578 ANCIENT AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. Part III. In the same city is the other building, just referred to, called the Casa del Gubernador, somewhat similar to the principal of the three edifices composing the Casa de las Monjas, but larger and even more elaborate in its decora- tions. It stands alone, how- ever, with only a temple at- tached unsymmetrically to one angle of it. With regard to construc- tion, as above remarked, the style may be generally charac- terized as one remove from the original wooden construction of early times. No wooden buildings, or even wooden roofs, now remain, nor could any have been expected to re- sist the effects of the climate ; but many of the lintels of the doorways were formed by wooden beams, and some of these still remain, though most of them have perished, bring- ing down with them large portions of the walls which were supported by them. In other instances, and generally speaking in those that 1004. Interior of a Chamber, Uxmal. (Prom a Drawing by F. Catherwood.) 1005. Apartment at Chichen Itza. (From a Drawing by F. Catlierwood.)