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... stone . How- ever , there are far better stepping - stones , had such been re- quired , in the Aleutian , and by the Diomede Islands in Behring's Straits . Markham , in his Cuzco and Lima and Peru and India , was rather in favour of the ...
... stone . How- ever , there are far better stepping - stones , had such been re- quired , in the Aleutian , and by the Diomede Islands in Behring's Straits . Markham , in his Cuzco and Lima and Peru and India , was rather in favour of the ...
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... stone chamber was met with , supported by posts of cypress ; it contained two bodies , two idols of basalt , and a ... stones ; the casing is a thick covering of porous amygdaloid . On their summits were colossal statues covered with ...
... stone chamber was met with , supported by posts of cypress ; it contained two bodies , two idols of basalt , and a ... stones ; the casing is a thick covering of porous amygdaloid . On their summits were colossal statues covered with ...
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... stones originally used in the temples , both in Mexico and in Peru , are found constituting parts of Romish churches ; the houses of the virgins of the sun turned into convents ; the schools of the aborigines into monasteries ; and the ...
... stones originally used in the temples , both in Mexico and in Peru , are found constituting parts of Romish churches ; the houses of the virgins of the sun turned into convents ; the schools of the aborigines into monasteries ; and the ...
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... stones , and ruins of an extensive town . One sculp- tured stone was of close - grained granite , twenty - one feet long , and the figures differed from the ancient sculptures found east of the main Cordillera , and somewhat resembled ...
... stones , and ruins of an extensive town . One sculp- tured stone was of close - grained granite , twenty - one feet long , and the figures differed from the ancient sculptures found east of the main Cordillera , and somewhat resembled ...
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... stones , united by cement , which seem to have been the boundary of a fortifica- tion of a circular area ; in the centre a pyramid , with three stages , rises to the height of eighty feet , having a base , of forty feet on two sides ...
... stones , united by cement , which seem to have been the boundary of a fortifica- tion of a circular area ; in the centre a pyramid , with three stages , rises to the height of eighty feet , having a base , of forty feet on two sides ...
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