When the crowd had passed by we strolled to the Alameda.
"Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I."
John L. Stephens
In the front wall of a house in a street running north from the plaza, and also in a corner house near the square of the Alameda, are sculptured figures from the ruins of ancient buildings, of which Mr. Catherwood made drawings, but, in the multiplicity of other subjects, we do not think it worth while to present them to the reader.
"Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I."
John L. Stephens
On the north a small river skirted the town, on the south, where nothing intervened between the grassy plain and the wooded Alameda, the besiegers found the most vulnerable flank.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle