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 78–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... century . This sketch is very inaccurate , though much preferable to that given by Robertson , and other European authors equally unskilled in the geography of Mexico . I have drawn on the map of the valley of Tenochtitlan the old ...
... century . This sketch is very inaccurate , though much preferable to that given by Robertson , and other European authors equally unskilled in the geography of Mexico . I have drawn on the map of the valley of Tenochtitlan the old ...
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... centuries before , also a small island , like the Peñol del Marques , or the Peñol de los Banos . It appears extremely pro- bable , from geological observations , that the lakes had been on the decrease long before the arrival of the ...
... centuries before , also a small island , like the Peñol del Marques , or the Peñol de los Banos . It appears extremely pro- bable , from geological observations , that the lakes had been on the decrease long before the arrival of the ...
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... century in great want , compelled to feed on roots of aquatic plants , insects , and a pro- blematical reptile called axolotl , which M. Cuvier looks upon to be the nympha of an un- known salamander . * Having been reduced to slavery by ...
... century in great want , compelled to feed on roots of aquatic plants , insects , and a pro- blematical reptile called axolotl , which M. Cuvier looks upon to be the nympha of an un- known salamander . * Having been reduced to slavery by ...
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... century , can only be the year 1325 , and not the years 1324 , 1327 , and 1341 , which the translator of the Raccolta di Mendoza , as well as Siguenza , cited by Boturini , and Betencourt , cited by Torquemada , allege to have been the ...
... century , can only be the year 1325 , and not the years 1324 , 1327 , and 1341 , which the translator of the Raccolta di Mendoza , as well as Siguenza , cited by Boturini , and Betencourt , cited by Torquemada , allege to have been the ...
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... centuries the want of equilibrium between the water lost by evaporation , and the mass of water flowing in , has progressively circumscribed the lake of Tezcuco within more narrow limits . We learn from the Mexican annals † , that in ...
... centuries the want of equilibrium between the water lost by evaporation , and the mass of water flowing in , has progressively circumscribed the lake of Tezcuco within more narrow limits . We learn from the Mexican annals † , that in ...
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