It ran upward in broad terraces.

It was very fair, decked with blossoming gardens and green groves.

Among the clustering granite houses, red and yellow roofed, thrust skyward tall spires and towers.

Upon the mount's top was a broad, flat plaza on which were great buildings, marble white and golden roofed; temples I thought, or palaces, or both.
Running to the city out of the grain fields and steads that surrounded it, were scores of little figures, rat-like.

Here and there among them I glimpsed horsemen, arms and armor glittering.