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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Արդյունքներ 58–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... ancient tradition was preserved among this horde , that the fatal term of their migration was to be a place where they should find an eagle sitting on the top of a nopal , of which the roots penetrated the crevices of a rock . This ...
... ancient tradition was preserved among this horde , that the fatal term of their migration was to be a place where they should find an eagle sitting on the top of a nopal , of which the roots penetrated the crevices of a rock . This ...
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... ancient Grecian temple , that of Apollo at Delphi , de- scribed by Pausanias . The stone edifice , of which Cortez and Bernal Diaz admired the symmetry , was constructed on the same spot by King Ahuit- zotl in the year 1486. It was a ...
... ancient Grecian temple , that of Apollo at Delphi , de- scribed by Pausanias . The stone edifice , of which Cortez and Bernal Diaz admired the symmetry , was constructed on the same spot by King Ahuit- zotl in the year 1486. It was a ...
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... ancient honours of his country certainly by no means predisposed him to scep- ticism on such a subject , that there is almost no possibility of combining the different descriptions , or of ascertaining the dimensions from them ...
... ancient honours of his country certainly by no means predisposed him to scep- ticism on such a subject , that there is almost no possibility of combining the different descriptions , or of ascertaining the dimensions from them ...
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... ancient monuments of Asia , ought to inte- rest us much more than its mass and size . The old city of Mexico communicated with the continent by the three great dikes , of Tepe- jacac ( Guadelupe ) , Tlacopan ( Tacuba ) , and Iz ...
... ancient monuments of Asia , ought to inte- rest us much more than its mass and size . The old city of Mexico communicated with the continent by the three great dikes , of Tepe- jacac ( Guadelupe ) , Tlacopan ( Tacuba ) , and Iz ...
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... ancient Mexicans , preserved in the palace of the viceroy , a curious painting , which represents the last king of Tlate- lolco , called Moquihuix , as killed on the top of a house of God , or truncated pyramid , and then thrown down ...
... ancient Mexicans , preserved in the palace of the viceroy , a curious painting , which represents the last king of Tlate- lolco , called Moquihuix , as killed on the top of a house of God , or truncated pyramid , and then thrown down ...
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