The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 150
cities ofUxmal, Kabab, Zayi, Ticul, Sisal, Chi-Chen, and Espita; and it willbe observed that not more than a third of the country has been as yet imperfectly explored, while what the mountain regions of the interiormay present is unknown. The inhabitants are chiefly of Indiandescent, called Mayas,… … n, temple ; b. ruins ; c, pyramid ; d, dome : e. house of the Caciques ;/. house ; g. hacienda ; It, evidences of large and splendid structures ; i, crosserected by the Indians ; o, church of the Indians. It was on the morning of the 10th of February that I directed mysteps, for the first time,…
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