 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 12Alexander von Humboldt - 1811 - 1687 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 էջ
...the breadth of two lances. The city is as large as Seville or Cordova. The streets, I merely speak of the principal ones, are very narrow and very large...market-place, twice as large as that of Seville, is surrounded with an immense portico, under which are exposed for sale all sorts of merchandise, eat ables, ornaments... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1814 - 538 էջ
...the breadth of two lances. 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 hall dry and half occupied by navigable canals, furnished with very well constructed wooden bridges,... | |
 | 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
...possessing all the activity and bustle of a commercial town. " The streets (he observes), I merely speak of the principal ones, are very narrow and very large...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
...possessing all the activity and bustle of a commercial town. " The streets (he observes,) I merely speak of the principal ones, are very narrow and very large...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,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 380 էջ
...the breadth of two lances. The city is as large as Seville or Cordova. The streets, I merely speak of the principal ones, are very narrow and very large;...occupied by navigable canals, furnished with very well-constructed wooden bridges, broad enough for ten men on horseback to pass at the same time. The... | |
 | James Bell - 1831 - 778 էջ
...breadth of two lances. The. city is as large as Seville or Cordova. The streets — I merely speak of the principal ones — are very narrow and very...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
...the breadth of two lances. The city is as large as Seville or Cordova. The streets — I merely speak of the principal ones — are very narrow and very...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 - 538 էջ
...description:— " The city," he says, " is as large as Seville or Cordova The streets, I merely speak of the principal ones, are very narrow and very large...half occupied by navigable canals, furnished with very-well constructed wooden-bridges. The market-place, twice as large as that of Seville, is surrounded... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 646 էջ
...Seville or Cordova. The streets, (I merely speak of the principal ones,) are very narrow and very long ; some are half dry and half occupied by navigable canals,...ten men on horseback to pass at the same time. The market place, twice as large as that of Seville, is surrounded with an immense portico, under which... | |
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