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Contributions to the history of the south-western portion of the United States (1890)

Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914 · Cambridge : John Wilson and Son, University Press · leaf 142

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looks conical, because the Pico-mayorstands behind the crater. (Plate IX.). As seen from the north,the profile is apparent. Previous to the year 1664 that profilewas probably different, inasmuch as an elevation, similar tothe western, stood over the eastern rim of the crater. It fellduring that… … X STUDIES ABOC/T CHOLULA AND ITS VICINITY. 103 writes a contemporary, the Franciscan Fray Augustin cleVetancLirt.^ It has been positively stated to me by geologists that thePopoca-tepetl has had no eruption for centuries, which may betrue so far as the emission of lava is concerned ; but…

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