They are separated by ditches of three or four yards, and are made by taking the soil from the intervening ditch and throwing it on the chinampa, by which means the ground is raised generally about a yard, and thus forms a small fertile garden, covered... Report - Página 404por Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - 1880Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Bullock - 1824 - 576 páginas
...wide. They are separated by ditches of three or four yards, and are made by taking the soil from the intervening ditch, and throwing it on the chinampa,...the finest culinary vegetables, fruits and flowers, — Mexico receives an ample supply from them. We shot here several pretty birds, some of which we... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1826 - 502 páginas
...wide, separated by ditches of three or four yards in width, and arc made by taking the soil from the intervening ditch, and throwing it on the chinampa,...and thus forms a small fertile garden, covered with culinary vegetables, fruits, and flowers. Mexico receives an ample supply from these sources." (Bullock'i... | |
| 1828 - 510 páginas
...wide, separated by ditches of three or four yards in width, and arc made by takipg the soil from the intervening ditch, and throwing it on the chinampa,...and thus forms a small fertile garden, covered with culinary vegetables, fruits, and flowers. Mexico receives an ample supply from these sources." ' Bullock... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1833 - 294 páginas
...wide, separated by ditches of three or four yards in width, and are made by taking the soil from the intervening ditch, and throwing it on the chinampa,...the finest culinary vegetables, fruits, and flowers. Mexico receives an ample supply from these sources. " Being pressed to dine, we accepted the invitation,... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 1326 páginas
...wide, separated by ditches of three or four yards in width ; and are made by taking the soil from the intervening ditch, and throwing it on the chinampa...and thus forms a small fertile garden, covered with culinary vegetables, fruits, and flowers. Mexico receives an ample supply from these sources." (Bollock's... | |
| Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology - 1880 - 802 páginas
...around Lake Peten. where the N known, we Hud in the 17th anil 181 h century, a tribe of '• Chin 403 intervening ditch, and throwing it on the chinampa,...aggregate area thereof, including the abodes, formed the " calpullalli" — soil of the "calpulli,"39 and was held by it as a unit; the single tracts, however,... | |
| Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier - 1877 - 302 páginas
...intervening ditch, and tbrowing it on the chinatupa, by which moans the gronnd is raised geuerally abont a yard, and thus forms a small fertile garden, covered with the finest culinary vegetables, frults and fiowers "37 Each consangulue relationship thus gradnally surrounded the surface on which... | |
| Harvard university Peabody mus - 1880 - 804 páginas
...that the original signification of the word, at least, was connected with the notion of a family-lot. intervening ditch, and throwing it on the chinampa,...number of garden plots sufficient to the wants of its members. 38 The aggregate area thereof, including the abodes, formed the " calpnllalli"—soil of the... | |
| Harvard university Peabody mus - 1880 - 804 páginas
...the original signification of the word, at least, was connected with the notion of a family-lot. 403 intervening ditch, and throwing it on the chinampa,...ground is raised generally about a yard, and thus forma a small fertile garden, covered with the finest culinary vegetables, fruits and flowers "3T Each... | |
| Lewis Henry Morgan - 1881 - 372 páginas
...wide. They are separated by ditches of three or four yards, and are made by taking the soil from the intervening ditch and throwing it on the chinampa,...the finest culinary vegetables, fruits, and flowers. * * *' "Each consanguine relationship thus gradually surrounded the surface on which it dwelt with... | |
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