Compte-rendu de la cinquième session. Copenhague, 1883Imp. de Thiele, 1884 - 436 pages |
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Page 13 - ... 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 162 - 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.
Page 162 - ... South America by a vast expanse of ocean, where rough waves and perpetually adverse winds and currents oppose access from the west. In attempting, from any part of Polynesia, to reach America, a canoe would naturally and almost necessarily be conveyed to the northern extreme of California ; and this is the precise limit where the second physical race of men makes its appearance. So well understood is the course of navigation, that San Francisco, I am informed, is commonly regarded in Mexico as...
Page 159 - 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 287 - Ce que nous venons de dire suffit pour donner une idée de la nature des composants et composés en langue maya.
Page 159 - 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 150 - 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 158 - 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 156 - 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 29 - Herrera, Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del Mar Oce'ano, (Madrid, 1730,) dec.