Compte-rendu de la cinquième session. Copenhague, 1883Imp. de Thiele, 1884 - 436 pages |
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Page 79 - ... ils laissèrent après eux des livres » irlandais, des cloches et des crosses, d'où l'on peut conclure » que c'étaient des Irlandais (1).
Page 261 - Mr. Fergusson, although he is no implicit believer in the transmission of races, ' that as we advance eastward from ' the Valley of the Euphrates, at every step we meet with forms ' of art more and more like those of Central America...
Page 264 - A correspondence quite as extraordinary is found between the hieroglyphics used by the Aztecs for the signs of the days, and those zodiacal signs which the Eastern Asiatics employed as one of the terms of their series. The symbols in the Mongolian calendar are borrowed from animals. Four of the twelve are the same as the Aztec. Three others are as nearly the same as the different species of animals in the two hemispheres would allow. The remaining five refer to no creature then found in Anahuac.
Page 261 - The ancient edifices of Chi Chen, in Central America, bear a striking resemblance to the topes of India. The shape of one of the domes, its apparent size, the small tower on the summit, the trees growing on the sides, the appearance of masonry here and there, the style of the ornaments, and the small doorway at the base, are so exactly similar to what I had seen at Anuradhapura, that when my eye first fell upon the engravings of these remarkable ruins, I supposed that they were presented in illustration...
Page 252 - There were eleven of these steps, each of which was four feet high, so that the height of the pile was forty-four feet: each step was formed of one course of white coral stone, which was neatly squared and polished; the rest of the mass, for there was no hollow within, consisted of round pebbles, which, from the regularity of their figure, seemed to have been wrought.
Page 260 - Malayan! language have been found from Madagascar to Easter island, and from Formosa to New Zealand, over 70 degrees of latitude, and 200 of longitude. To account for this remarkable dissemination of a language, singular for its extent, among a people so rude, it has been imagined that...
Page 4 - Examen critique du Popol Vuh. Comparaison des trois royaumes de Cuzco, de Trujillo et de Quito qui formaient l'empire des Incas, au moment de la conquête. Différences que présentaient leur religion, leur législation, leur langage, leur architecture, leurs mœurs, etc.
Page 258 - The amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with that required to complete this sculptured hill-temple in the interior of Java.
Page 182 - Zichmni would not give up the enterprise, but in lieu of the fisherman, took some sailors that had come out with him from the island. Steering westwards, we discovered some islands subject to Frislanda, and passing certain shoals, came to Ledovo, where we stayed seven, days to refresh ourselves and to furnish the fleet with necessaries. Departing thence we arrived on the first of July at the Island of Ilofe...
Page 387 - Ce que nous venons de dire suffit pour donner une idée de la nature des composants et composés en langue maya.