Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain: With Physical Sections and Maps Founded on Astronomical Observations and Trigonometrical and Barometrical Measurements, Հատոր 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 |
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... find hewn stone , tiles , and timber fit for building . There are lanes for game , others for roots and garden fruits : there are houses where barbers shave the head ( with razors made of obsidian ) ; and there are houses resembling our ...
... find hewn stone , tiles , and timber fit for building . There are lanes for game , others for roots and garden fruits : there are houses where barbers shave the head ( with razors made of obsidian ) ; and there are houses resembling our ...
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... find an eagle sitting on the top of a nopal , of which the roots penetrated the crevices of a rock . This nopal ( cactus ) , alluded to in the oracle , was seen by the Aztecs in the year 1325 , which is the second Callit of the Mexican ...
... find an eagle sitting on the top of a nopal , of which the roots penetrated the crevices of a rock . This nopal ( cactus ) , alluded to in the oracle , was seen by the Aztecs in the year 1325 , which is the second Callit of the Mexican ...
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... find at 2300 metres ( 7500 feet ) of elevation on the ridge of the Mexican Cordilleras . But Washington and Philadelphia will always look like European cities . They will not strike the eyes of the traveller with that peculiar , I may ...
... find at 2300 metres ( 7500 feet ) of elevation on the ridge of the Mexican Cordilleras . But Washington and Philadelphia will always look like European cities . They will not strike the eyes of the traveller with that peculiar , I may ...
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... find in this capital those great remains of works which are to be seen in Peru , in the environs of Cusco and Guamachuco , at Pachacamac near Lima , or at Mansiche near Truxillo ; at Canar and Cayo in the province of Quito ; and in ...
... find in this capital those great remains of works which are to be seen in Peru , in the environs of Cusco and Guamachuco , at Pachacamac near Lima , or at Mansiche near Truxillo ; at Canar and Cayo in the province of Quito ; and in ...
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... find a group , I may say a system , of pyramids , of scarcely 9 or 10 metres of elevation . * These monuments , of which there are several hundreds , are disposed in very large streets which follow exactly the direction of the parallels ...
... find a group , I may say a system , of pyramids , of scarcely 9 or 10 metres of elevation . * These monuments , of which there are several hundreds , are disposed in very large streets which follow exactly the direction of the parallels ...
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