Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volym 2Harper & Brothers, 1841 |
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Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volym 2 John L. Stephens Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1841 |
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volym 2 John Lloyd Stephens Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1848 |
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volym 2 John L. Stephens Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1871 |
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alcalde alguazil arms arrived ascended bank beautiful building bungo cabildo called captain Carrera Casa Catherwood Central America Chiapas church Ciudad Real Copan corregidor corridor courtyard cross cura dark descended distance Don Francisco Don Saturnino door doorway Dupaix engraving face feet Figoroa figures foot four front gobernador ground Guatimala hacienda head hieroglyphics Honduras horse hour hundred immense Indians inhabitants journey Juan lake leagues logwood looked major-domo Merida Mexico Morazan morning mountain mules New-York night o'clock ornaments padre palace Palenque passed passport Pawling plain plaza pyramidal Quezaltenango Quiché Quirigua rain ravine reached remains returned Rio Chico river road rode ruins San Salvador sculptured seemed Señor sent side soldiers Spaniards Spanish steps stone stood stream stucco tablets temple terrace Tobasco told town trees Usumasinta Uxmal village volcano wall whole woods Yucatan
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Sida 336 - 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.
Sida 336 - ... gloomy forest, and fancied every building perfect, with its terraces and pyramids, its sculptured and painted ornaments, grand, lofty, and imposing, and overlooking an immense inhabited plain ; we called back into life the strange people who gazed at us in sadness from the walls ; pictured them, in fanciful costumes and adorned with plumes of feathers, ascending the terraces of the palace and the steps leading to the temples...
Sida 389 - The noise and bustle of the market-place below us could be heard almost a league off, and those who had been at Rome and at Constantinople said, that for convenience, regularity, and population, they had never seen the like.
Sida 372 - The ornaments, which succeed each other, are all different ; the whole form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar and striking than the general effect. There were no tablets or single stones, each representing separately and...
Sida 279 - ... angle of about forty-five degrees. The upper part of the head seems to have been compressed and lengthened, perhaps by the same process employed upon the heads of the Choctaw and Flat-head Indians of our own country. The head represents a different species from any now existing in that region of country ; and supposing the statues to be images of living personages, or the creations of artists according to their ideas of perfect figures, they indicate a race of people now lost and unknown.
Sida 336 - An Emperor tramples where an Emperor knelt ; Kingdoms are shrunk to provinces, and chains Clank over sceptred cities ; nations melt From power's high pinnacle, when they have felt The sunshine for a while, and downward go Like lauwine loosen'd from the mountain's belt; Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo ! Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe.
Sida 369 - 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.
Sida 189 - ... 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.
Sida 189 - 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.
Sida 368 - I counted sixteen elevations, with broken walls and mounds of stones, and vast, magnificent edifices, which at that distance seemed untouched by time and defying ruin. I stood in the doorway when the sun went down, throwing from the buildings a prodigious breadth of shadow, darkening the terraces on which they stood, and presenting a scene strange enough for a work of enchantment. ' The Casa del Enano is 68 feet long.