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alcalde alguazil arrival ascended bank bas-relief beautiful building bungo cabildo called canoe captain Carrera Casa Catherwood Central America CHARLES ANTHON Chiapas church Ciudad Real Copan corregidor corridor courtyard cross cura dark descended distance Don Saturnino door doorway dressed engraving feet high feet long Figoroa foot four front ground Guatimala hacienda hands head hieroglyphics Honduras horse hundred immense Indians inhabitants journey Juan lake leagues logwood looked major-domo Merida Mexico miles Morazan morning moschetoes mountain mules New-York night o'clock ornaments padre palace Palenque passed passport Pawling perhaps plain plaza pyramidal Quezaltenango Quiché Quirigua rain reached returned river road rode ruins San Salvador sculptured seemed Señor sent side soldiers Spaniards Spanish steps stone stood stream stucco tablets temple terrace tion Tobasco told took town trees twenty Uxmal village volcano wall whole woods Yucatan
Populaire passages
Pagina 472 - Commentaries on the Gallic War, and the First Book of the Greek Paraphrase; with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Plans of Battles, Sieges, &c., and Historical, Geographical, and Archaeological Indexes.
Pagina 471 - Latin Grammar, Part I. Containing the most important Parts of the Grammar of the Latin Language, together with appropriate Exercises in the translating and writing of Latin.
Pagina 352 - Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar people, who had passed through all the stages incident to the rise and fall of nations ; reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these were the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth.
Pagina 352 - Valley" of Rasselas. In the romance of the world's history nothing ever impressed me more forcibly than the spectacle of this once great and lovely city, overturned, desolate, and lost; discovered by accident, overgrown with trees for miles around, and without even a name to distinguish it.
Pagina 473 - JEneid of Virgil. With English Notes, critical and explanatory, a Metrical Clavis, and an Historical, Geographical, and Mythological Index.
Pagina 440 - I invite to this subject the special attention of those familiar with the Arts of other countries ; — for, unless I am wrong, we have a conclusion far more interesting and wonderful than that of connecting the builders of these cities with the Egyptians, or any other people. It is the Spectacle of A. PEOPLE skilled in Architecture, Sculpture, and Drawing, and beyond doubt, other more perishable arts ; and possessing the cultivation and refinement attendant upon these, — NOT DERIVED FROM THE OLD...
Pagina 428 - There is no rudeness or barbarity in the design or proportions ; on the contrary, the whole wears an air of architectural symmetry and grandeur ; and as the stranger ascends the steps and casts a bewildered eye along its open and desolate doors, it is hard to believe that he sees before him the work of a race in whose epitaph, as written by historians, they are called ignorant of art, and said to have perished in the rudeness of savage life.
Pagina 196 - ... another person who had climbed to the top of the sierra, but, on account of the dense cloud resting upon it, had been unable to see anything. At all events, the belief at the village of Chajul is general, and a curiosity is roused that burns to be satisfied.
Pagina 195 - He was then young, and with much labour climbed to the naked summit of the sierra, from which, at a height of ten or twelve thousand feet, he looked over an immense plain extending to Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and saw at a great distance a large city spread over a great space, and with turrets white and glittering in the sun.
Pagina 444 - When we arrived there, we were astonished at the crowds of people, and the regularity which prevailed, as well as at the vast quantities of merchandise, which those who attended us were assiduous in pointing out.