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 páginas |
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America ancient appearance arrived Aztalan beautiful Bochica broken building built CACIQUES Campeachy carved Casa-real ceilings centre Chi-Chen church Cloaca Maxima corridors Cortez covered curate dilapidated door doorways dress edifices evidently façade feet high fifty feet figures finished four front Governor's House hacienda hammocks height hewn stone hieroglyphics horses Humboldt hundred feet idols immense Indians inhabitants interior José kind 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 road rooms ruins says sculptured seen side similar Sisal South America Spaniards square stranger streets structure style summit surrounded temple terrace thing Ticul tion tortillas town traveller trees tumuli Uxmal Valladolid vegetation Votan walls whole Yucatan
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Página 109 - 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.
Página 176 - 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.
Página 293 - 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...
Página 279 - ... built by the Mexicans were mostly of earth, and not much superior to the common ones on the Mississippi." The same may be said of the works of this sort over the whole earth, which is the evidence that all alike belong to the first efforts of men in the very first ages after the flood. " But afterwards temples were erected on the elevated squares, circles, &c., but were still, like ours, surrounded by walls of earth. These sacred places, in Mexico, were called ' teocalli? which in the vernacular...
Página 236 - It appears that the most part of these languages, far from being dialects of the same (as some authors have falsely advanced), are at least as different from one another as the Greek and the German, or the French and Polish. This is the case at least with the seven languages of New Spain, of which I possess the vocabularies.
Página 234 - Ponceau, Mr. Pickering, and others; and to prove that all the languages, not only of our own Indians, but of the native inhabitants of America from the Arctic Ocean to Cape Horn,* have, as far as they have been...
Página 284 - ... extending along the mountain that stretches east and west either way from these buildings, as if they were the great temple of worship, or their government house, around which they built their city, and where dwelt their kings and officers of state. At this place was found a subterranean stone aqueduct, of great solidity and durability, which in its course passes beneath the largest building.
Página 283 - ... a lofty and beautiful majesty, as if it were a temple suspended in the sky. This is surrounded by other edifices, namely, five to the northward, four to the southward, one to the south-west, and three to the eastward, fourteen in all.
Página 109 - I hazard little in saying, must have been one of the largest the world has ever seen. I beheld before me, for a circuit of many miles in diameter, the walls of palaces and temples and pyramids, more or less dilapidated. The earth was strewed, as far as the eye could distinguish, with columns, some broken and some nearly perfect, which seemed to have been planted there by the genius of desolation which presided over this awful solitude.