Report of an Archaeological Tour in Mexico, in 1881

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Página 324 - ... the top, all very thick and wide. In these quarters there was another hall containing round pillars, each one of a single piece, and so thick that two men could barely embrace one of them ; their height might be five fathoms.
Página 230 - In the most prominent part of this court there stood a great rectangular base, one of which I measured at Tenanyocan in order to write this, and found it to be forty fathoms from corner to corner. This they filled up solid, stuffing it within with stone, clay, adobe, or wellpounded earth, and faced it with a wall of stone ; and as it rose they made it incline inward, and at every fathom and a half or two fathoms of height they made a stage. Thus there was a broad foundation, and on it walls narrowing...
Página 7 - Panoayan es que dizque los primeros pobladores que vinieron a poblar a esta tierra de México, que se llama ahora India Occidental, llegaron a aquel puerto con navios con que pasaron aquella mar...

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