 | 1842 - 592 páginas
...race, guard-ing the ruins of their former habitations. '' We returned to the base of the pyramidical structure, and ascended by regular stone steps, in...ascertained to be a square, and with steps on all the lideo, almost HI perfect as those of the Roman amphitheatre. The steps were ornamented with sculpture;... | |
 | 1842 - 594 páginas
...race, guarding the ruins of their former habitations. " We returned to the base of the pyramidical structure, and ascended by regular stone steps, in...a square, and with steps on all the sides, almost us perfect as those of the Roman amphitheatre. The steps were ornamented with sculpture ; and on the... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1842 - 660 páginas
...apart by bushes and saplings, and in others thrown down by the growth of large trees, while some remain entire. In parts they were ornamented with sculptured...ascertained to be a square, and with steps on all sides, almost as perfect as those of the Roman amphitheatre. The steps were ornamented with sculpture,... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 páginas
...some remained entire. In parts they were ornamented with sculptured figures and rows of death's-heads. Climbing over the ruined top, we reached a terrace...its form, but which, on clearing the way with the matchete, we ascertained to be a square, and with steps on all the sides, almost as perfect as those... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 páginas
...regular stone steps ; in part, they were ornamented with sculptured figures, and rows of death's-heads. Climbing over the ruined top, we reached a terrace...its form ; but which, on clearing the way with the machette, we ascertained to be a square, and with steps on all the sides, almost as perfeet as those... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 526 páginas
...regular stone steps ; in part, they were ornamented with sculptured figures, and rows of death's-heads. Climbing over the ruined top, we reached a terrace overgrown with trees ; and crossing it, descended bystone steps into an area, so covered with trees, that at first we could not make out its form ; but... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1847 - 732 páginas
...over the walls and through the thick wood to the interior of the inclosure, " we came," he says, " to an area so covered with trees, that at first we could...make out its form, but which, on clearing the way, we ascertained to be a squarç, with steps on all the sides, almost as perfect as those of the Roman... | |
 | Pictures - 1871 - 272 páginas
...branches of trees, and almost lifted out of the earth ; another hurled to the THE BURIED CITY. 131 ground, and bound down by huge vines and creepers;...with the machete, we ascertained to be a square, and 132 A LOST RACE. with steps on all the sides almost as perfect as those of the Roman amphitheatre.... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 páginas
...with sculptured figures and rows of death's-heads. Climbing over the ruined top, we reached a ten-ace overgrown with trees, and, crossing it, descended...ascertained to be a square, and with steps on all sides almost as perfect as those of the Roman amphitheatre. 2. The steps were ornamented with sculpture,... | |
 | 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
...some remained entire. In parts they were ornamented with sculptured figures and rows of death's-heads. Climbing over the ruined top, we reached a terrace...be a square, and with steps on all the sides almost at perfect as those of the Roman amphitheatre. The steps were ornamented with sculpture, and on the... | |
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... like wandering spirits of the departed race guarding the ruins of their former habitations. We returned to the base of the pyramidal structure, and ascended by regular stone steps, in some places forced apart by bushes and saplings, and in others... 
