Museum Americanum, Or, Select Antiquities, Curiosities, Beauties, and Varieties, of Nature and Art, in AmericaG. & W.B. Whittaker, W. Baynes and Son, and T. Blanshard, 1823 - 346 pages |
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... thousand miles , and its greatest width four thousand six hundred . The objects which it presents to our notice , are chiefly distinguished by their grandeur and magnificence . The operations of nature seem here to have been conducted ...
... thousand miles , and its greatest width four thousand six hundred . The objects which it presents to our notice , are chiefly distinguished by their grandeur and magnificence . The operations of nature seem here to have been conducted ...
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... thousands of human skeletons , but no farther . The proprietor of the ground , Mr. Joseph Tomlinson , will not suffer ... thousand ; the smallest not less than twenty feet in height , and one hundred in diameter at the base . Their great ...
... thousands of human skeletons , but no farther . The proprietor of the ground , Mr. Joseph Tomlinson , will not suffer ... thousand ; the smallest not less than twenty feet in height , and one hundred in diameter at the base . Their great ...
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... THOUSAND SOULS , HAVE EXISTED IN THIS COUNTRY . " Nearly opposite St. Louis , there are traces of two such cities , in the distance of five miles . They are si- tuated on the Cahokia , which crosses the American bot- tom opposite St ...
... THOUSAND SOULS , HAVE EXISTED IN THIS COUNTRY . " Nearly opposite St. Louis , there are traces of two such cities , in the distance of five miles . They are si- tuated on the Cahokia , which crosses the American bot- tom opposite St ...
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... thousand inhabitants . The pyramid is to the east of the city , on the road which leads from Cholula to Puebla . The Teocalli of Cholula has four stories , all of equal height . It appears to have been constructed exactly in the ...
... thousand inhabitants . The pyramid is to the east of the city , on the road which leads from Cholula to Puebla . The Teocalli of Cholula has four stories , all of equal height . It appears to have been constructed exactly in the ...
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... thousand two hundred square metres . From it the eye ranges over a magnificent prospect ; Popocatepetl , Iztaceihuatl , the peak of Orizaba , and the Sierra de Tlascalla , famous for the tempests which gather around its summit . We view ...
... thousand two hundred square metres . From it the eye ranges over a magnificent prospect ; Popocatepetl , Iztaceihuatl , the peak of Orizaba , and the Sierra de Tlascalla , famous for the tempests which gather around its summit . We view ...
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