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... Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain - Էջ 8Alexander von Humboldt - 1814Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 էջ
...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...portico, under which are exposed for sale all sorts of merchandise, eat ables, ornaments made of gold, silver, lead, pewter, precious stones, bones, shells,... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1811 - 546 էջ
...The streets, I merely spe ik of the principal ones, are very narrow and very large ; some are half dry and half occupied by navigable canals, furnished...market-place, twice as large as that of Seville, is surrounded \\ith an immense portico, under which are exposed for sale all sorts of merchandize, eatables, ornaments... | |
| William Bingley - 1821 - 374 էջ
...streets were narrow: some of them had navigable canals running along them, furnished with bridges, wide enough for ten men on horseback, to pass at the same time. The market-place was surrounded with an immense portico, under which Were sold all sorts of merchandise, eatables, ornaments... | |
| Edinburgh gazetteer - 1822 - 802 էջ
...(he observes), I merely speak of the principal ones, are very narrow and very large ; some are half dry and half occupied by navigable canals, furnished...well constructed wooden bridges, broad enough for 10 men on horseback to pass at the same time. The market-place, twice as large as that of Seville,... | |
| Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 էջ
...(he observes,) I merely speak of the principal ones, are very narrow and very large ; some are half dry and half occupied by navigable canals, furnished...well constructed wooden bridges, broad enough for 10 men on horseback to pass at the same time. The market-place, twice as large as that of Seville,... | |
| James Bell - 1831 - 778 էջ
...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...well constructed wooden bridges, broad enough for ten niiMi on horseback to pass at the same time. The market-place, tivico as large as that of Seville,... | |
| James Bell - 1832 - 910 էջ
...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...horseback to pass at the same time. The market-place, tivice as Montexuma shot at him intentionally, and killed him with their arrows ; others affirm that... | |
| 1835 - 542 էջ
...half dry and half occupied by navigable canals, furnished with very-well constructed wooden-bridges. The market-place, twice as large as that of Seville,...portico, under which are exposed for sale all sorts of merchandise, eatables, ornaments made of gold, silver, lead, pewter, precious stones, bones, shells,... | |
| 1835 - 538 էջ
...half dry and half occupied by navigable canals, furnished with very-well constructed wooden-bridges. The market-place, twice as large as that of Seville, is surrounded with an immense portico, uiider which are exposed for sale all sorts of merchandise, eatables, ornaments made of gold, silver,... | |
| Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 612 էջ
...to Charles V. dated October 1520, says, " the market place is twice as large as that of Seville and surrounded with an immense portico, under which are exposed for sale all sorts of merchandise, eatables, ornaments made of gold, silver, lead, pewter, precious stones, bones, shells,... | |
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