Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain ...: With Physical Sections and Maps, Founded on Astronomical Observations, and Trigonometrical and Barometrical Measurements, Հատոր 2I. Riley, 1811 |
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Արդյունքներ 66–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 monu- ment of Babylon , called by Strabo the Mausoleum of Belus , which was only a pyramid dedicated to Jupiter Belust . Neither the Teocalli nor the Babylonian edifice were temples in the sense which we attach to the word ...
... ancient monu- ment of Babylon , called by Strabo the Mausoleum of Belus , which was only a pyramid dedicated to Jupiter Belust . Neither the Teocalli nor the Babylonian edifice were temples in the sense which we attach to the word ...
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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 interest us much more than its mass and size . The old city of Mexico communicated with the continent by the three great dikes , of Tepejacac ( Guadelupe ) , Tlacopan ( Tacuba ) , and Iztapalapan ...
... ancient monuments of Asia , ought to interest us much more than its mass and size . The old city of Mexico communicated with the continent by the three great dikes , of Tepejacac ( Guadelupe ) , Tlacopan ( Tacuba ) , and Iztapalapan ...
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