Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, כרך 2John Murray, 1841 |
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alcalde alguazil altar arrival ascended Bas-relief beautiful building bungo cabildo called captain Carrera Casa Casas de Piedra Catherwood Central America church Ciudad Real Copan corregidor corridor courtyard cross cura dark descended distance Don Saturnino door doorway dressed Edition engraving face Fcap Figoroa foot four front ground Guatimala hacienda half hands head hieroglyphics Honduras horse hour hundred immense Indians inhabitants journey Juan lake leagues looked major-domo Merida Mexico miles Morazan morning mountain mules night o'clock ornaments padre palace Palenque party passed passport Pawling plain plaza Post 8vo pyramidal Quezaltenango Quiché Quirigua ravine reached returned river road rode ruins San Salvador sculptured seemed Señor sent side soldiers Spaniards Spanish stone stood stopped stucco tablets temple terrace tion Tobasco told took town travelling trees Uxmal village volcano wall whole woods
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עמוד 348 - 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.
עמוד 425 - 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 289 - Pnlacio!" and through openings in the trees we saw the front of a large building richly ornamented with stuccoed figures on the pilasters, curious and elegant; trees growing close against it, and their branches entering the doors ; in style and effect unique, extraordinary, and mournfully beautiful.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 308 - He holds in his hand a staff or sceptre, and opposite his hands are the marks of three hieroglyphics, which have decayed or been broken off. At his feet are two naked figures seated cross-legged, and apparently suppliants. A fertile imagination might find many explanations for these strange figures, but no satisfactory interpretation presents itself to my mind. The hieroglyphics doubtless tell its history. The stucco is of admirable consistency, and hard as stone. It was painted, and in different...
עמוד 349 - 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.
עמוד 272 - We had brought the silla with us merely as a measure of precaution, with much expectation of being obliged to use it ; but at a steep pitch, which made my head almost burst to think of climbing, I resorted to it for the first time. It was a large, clumsy armchair, put together with wooden pins and bark strings. The Indian who was to carry me, like all the others, was small, not more than five feet seven, very thin, but symmetrically formed. A bark strap was tied to the arms of the chair, and, sitting...
עמוד 417 - Perhaps the high ruined structures at Palenque, which we have called pyramidal, and which were so ruined that we could not make them out exactly, were originally of the same shape. On the east side of the structure is a broad range of stone steps between eight and nine inches high, and so steep that great care is necessary in ascending and descending ; of these we counted a hundred and one in their places.
עמוד 300 - They are more than half an inch long, and have a sharp moveable horn on the head : when laid on the back they cannot turn over except by pressing this horn against a membrane upon the front. Behind the eyes are two round transparent substances, full of luminous matter, about as large as the head of a pin, and underneath is a larger membrane containing the same luminous substance. Four of them together threw a brilliant light for several yards around ; and by the light of a single one we read distinctly...