 | 1842 - 574 páginas
...entered the woods, Jose, the guide, clearing a path before us with a machete. Soon we came to the hank of a river, and saw directly opposite a stone wall,...city, on whose history books throw but little light. ... ' Dr. Robertson, in his History of America, lays it down as " a certain principle, that America... | |
 | 1841 - 404 páginas
...soon we came to the bank of a river, and saw directly opposite a stone wall, perhaps a hundred feei high, with furze growing out of the top, running north...structure than any we had ever seen, ascribed to the aboriginals of America, and formed pan of the wall of Copan, an ancient city, on whose history books... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 600 páginas
...directed. On approaching the river Copan, the first object which they saw was, on the opposite bank, "a stone wall, perhaps a hundred feet high, with furze...river, in some places fallen, but in others entire." " The wall was of cut stone, well laid, and in a good state of preservation. We ascended by large stone... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 578 páginas
...directed. On approaching the river Copan, the first object which they saw was, on the opposite bank, " a stone wall, perhaps a hundred feet high, with furze...river, in some places fallen, but in others entire." " The wall was of cut stone, well laid, and in a good state of preservation. We ascended by large stone... | |
 | 1842 - 630 páginas
...them: — ' We dismounted, and tying our mules to trees near by, entered the woods, Jose, the guide, clearing a path before us with a machete. Soon we...city, on whose history books throw but little light. . . . 'Dr. Robertson, in his History of America, lays it down as a «certain principle, that America... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 páginas
...entered the woods, Jose clearing a path before UB with a matchete ; soon we came to the bank of a rivet, and saw, directly opposite, a stone wall, perhaps...Aborigines of America, and formed part of the wall of the ancient city of Copan. " It was of cut stone, well laid, and in a good state of 652—2 preservation.... | |
 | Pictures - 1871 - 272 páginas
...what direction to look for them. When he and his companions reached the bank of the river Copan, they saw, directly opposite, a stone wall, perhaps a hundred...river, in some places fallen, but in others entire. This was their first sight of the wall of Copan. It was so overgrown with trees and brushwood, that... | |
 | John Denison Baldwin - 1871 - 308 páginas
...them : " We came to the right bank of the river, and saw directly opposite a stone wall from 60 to 90 feet high, with furze growing out of the top, running north and south along the river 624 feet, in some places fallen, 112 in others entire." This great wall supported the rear side of... | |
 | Frederick Larkin - 1880 - 308 páginas
...America. In describing them he says :^,"We saw directly opposite a stone wall from sixty to ninety feet high, with furze growing out of the top, running north and south along the river 624 feet, in some places fallen, in others entire." The colossal wall, like most of the great structures... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 páginas
...them : — ' We dismounted, and tying our mules to trees near by, entered the woods, Jose, the guide, clearing a path before us with a machete. Soon we...city, on whose history books throw but little light. ... 'Dr. Robertson, in his History of America, lays it down as "a certain principle, that America was... | |
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Jose, the guide, clearing a path before us with a machete. Soon we came to the bank of a river, and saw directly opposite a stone wall, perhaps a hundred feet high, with furze growing out of the top, running north and south along the river, in some places... 
