Rambles in Yucatan: Or, Notes of Travel Through the Peninsula, Including a Visit to the Remarkable Ruins of Chi-Chen, Kabah, Zayi, and UxmalJ. & H.G. Langley, 1843 - 304 էջ |
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Rambles in Yucatan: Or, Notes of Travel Through the Peninsula, Including a ... Benjamin Moore Norman Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1843 |
Rambles in Yucatan: Or, Notes of Travel Through the Peninsula, Including a ... Benjamin Moore Norman Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1843 |
Rambles in Yucatan: Or, Notes of Travel Through the Peninsula, Including a ... Benjamin Moore Norman Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1843 |
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America ancient appearance arrived Aztalan beautiful Bochica broken building built CACIQUES calabash Campeachy carved Casa-real ceilings centre Chi-Chen church contain corridors Cortez covered curate customs door doorways dress edifices evidently façade feet high fifty figures finished front Governor's House hacienda hammocks height hewn stone hieroglyphics horses Humboldt hundred feet idols immense Indians inhabitants interior José KAUA kind labor ladies language leagues lintels Maya Maya language ments Merida Mexican Mexico miles morning mounds muslin nations natives Nuns o'clock observed occupied ornamented Palenque piles pillars political portion present priests principal province Pyramid Quetzalcoatl race remains remarkable road rooms ruins says sculptured seen side similar Sisal South America Spaniards Spanish square stranger streets style temple terrace thing Ticul tion tortillas town traveller trees tumuli Uxmal Valladolid vegetation vicinity Votan walls whole worship Yucatan
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Էջ 107 - Thebes's streets three thousand years ago. When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous.
Էջ 264 - Zopilote ; this bird, which feeds on dead flesh, did not return, on account of the great number of carcasses with which the earth recently dried up was strewed. Tezpi sent out other birds, one of which, the...
Էջ 234 - I possess the vocabularies. The variety of idioms spoken by the people of the new continent, and which, without the least exaggeration, may be stated at some hundreds, offers a very striking phenomenon, particularly when we compare it with the few languages spoken in Asia and Europe.
Էջ 303 - EDWARDS LESTER'S NEW WORK. In two vole. 12mo. beautifully printed and embellished by finelyengraved plates from designs of Chapman. THE CONDITION AND FATE OF ENGLAND. BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE GLORY AND SHAME OF ENGLAND.
Էջ 232 - Amidst that great diversity of American languages, considered only in reference to their vocabularies, the similarity of their structure and grammatical forms has been observed and pointed out by the American philologists. The result appears to confirm the opinions already entertained on that subject by Mr.
Էջ 291 - I have restored to them the true name of Otolum, which is yet the name of the stream running through the ruins. I should have been inclined to undertake this voyage and exploration myself, if the civil discords of the country did not forbid it. My attention was drawn forcibly to this subject as soon as the account of those ruins...
Էջ 170 - I shall never be able without seeing you in person, and perhaps not then, to inform you how universally and circumstantially the Tartars resemble the aborigines of America. They are the same people ; the most ancient and the most numerous of any other ; and had not a small sea divided them, they would all have been still known by the same name.
Էջ 173 - Whose lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials, which the wizard, Time, Had raised to count his ages by...