Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Հատոր 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 |
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... chinampas and arable land . The lake of Tezcuco , which Valmont de Bomaret * Properly from the S. 16 ° W. to N. 74 ° E. at least towards the convent of Saint Augustin , where I took my azimuths . The direction of the old streets was ...
... chinampas and arable land . The lake of Tezcuco , which Valmont de Bomaret * Properly from the S. 16 ° W. to N. 74 ° E. at least towards the convent of Saint Augustin , where I took my azimuths . The direction of the old streets was ...
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... chinampas , called by the Europeans floating gardens . There are two sorts of them , of which the one is moveable , and driven about by the winds , and the other fixed and attached to the shore . The first alone merit the denomination ...
... chinampas , called by the Europeans floating gardens . There are two sorts of them , of which the one is moveable , and driven about by the winds , and the other fixed and attached to the shore . The first alone merit the denomination ...
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... chinampas were merely bits of ground joined together artificially , and dug and sown upon by the Aztecs . These floating islands are to be met with in all the zones . I have seen them in the kingdom of Quito , on the river Guayaquil ...
... chinampas were merely bits of ground joined together artificially , and dug and sown upon by the Aztecs . These floating islands are to be met with in all the zones . I have seen them in the kingdom of Quito , on the river Guayaquil ...
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... chinampas have become fixed . We see this last class all along the canal de la Viga , in the marshy ground between the lake of Chalco and the lake of Tezcuco . Every chinampa forms a parallelogram of 100 metres in length , and from five ...
... chinampas have become fixed . We see this last class all along the canal de la Viga , in the marshy ground between the lake of Chalco and the lake of Tezcuco . Every chinampa forms a parallelogram of 100 metres in length , and from five ...
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... chinampas are cultivated beans , small pease , pimento ( chile , capsicum ) , potatoes , artichokes , cauliflowers , and a great variety of other vegetables . The edges of these squares are generally ornamented with flowers , and ...
... chinampas are cultivated beans , small pease , pimento ( chile , capsicum ) , potatoes , artichokes , cauliflowers , and a great variety of other vegetables . The edges of these squares are generally ornamented with flowers , and ...
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Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain: With Physical Sections ..., Հատոր 2 Alexander von Humboldt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1822 |
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain: With Physical Sections ..., Հատոր 2 Alexander von Humboldt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1822 |
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain ...: With Physical ..., Հատոր 2 Alexander von Humboldt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1811 |
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Էջ 202 - The admirable order with which different tribes of vegetables rise above one another by strata, as it were, is no where more perceptible than in ascending from the port of Vera Cruz to the table-land of Perote. We see there the physiognomy of the country, the aspect of the sky, the form of plants, the figures of animals, the manners of the inhabitants, and the kind of cultivation followed by them, assume a different appearance at every step of our progress.
Էջ 357 - Durango, between the parallels of 21° and 25°, where the most considerable metallic wealth of New Spain is to be found ? If the town is placed on the arid side or the crest of the Cordilleras, the new colonists can only draw from a distance the means of their subsistence and the maintenance of the great number of cattle employed in drawing off the water, and raising and amalgamating the mineral produce. Want soon awakens industry. The soil begins to be cultivated in the ravins and declivities of...
Էջ 277 - The sky is constantly serene and of a deep blue, and without a cloud ; and should any clouds appear for a moment at the setting of the sun, they display the most beautiful shades of violet, purple, and green.
Էջ 358 - The soil begins to be cultivated in the ravines and declivities of the neighbouring mountains, wherever the rock is covered with earth. Farms are established" in the neighbourhood of the mine. The high price of provision, from the competition of the purchasers, indemnifies the cultivator for the privations to which he is exposed, from the hard life of the mountains.
Էջ 30 - ... of the east. From the centre of this solitude, the summit of the porphyritical rock of Chapoltepec, the eye sweeps over a vast plain of carefully cultivated fields, which extend to the very feet of the colossal mountains covered with perpetual snow. The city appears as if washed by the waters of the lake...
Էջ 162 - ... feet in height, comparing it only with the level of the old adjoining plains, in the interior of a continent, thirty-six leagues distant from the coast, and more than forty-two leagues from every other active volcano. This remarkable phenomenon...
Էջ 248 - Santa Clara Mountains, on the west and south by the Santa Clara Mountains and the District of Monterey, and on the east by the Coast Range.
Էջ 150 - ... from the Mexican table-land to the Havannah, and especially from the want of beasts of burden. The commerce which Puebla carried on till 1710 with Peru in hats and delft ware has entirely ceased.
Էջ 8 - The city is as large as Seville or Cordova. The streets, I merely speak of the principal ones, are very narrow and very large ; some are half dry and half occupied by navigable canals, furnished with very well constructed wooden bridges, broad enough for ten men on horseback to pass at the same time.
Էջ 152 - are better clothed than any we have hitherto seen. People in easy circumstances wear cloaks above their dress. These cloaks differ from those of Africa, for they have pockets, though the cut, cloth, and fringes are the same. The environs of the city are very fertile and well cultivated. Almost all the fields may be watered, and the city is much more beautiful than all those in Spain, for it is well fortified, and built on very level ground.