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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 522

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n. Within the border.s ofMexico is contained iilmo.st the entire range ofaboriginal American arcliitecture. At one enilof tlie scale are shelters of tiie rudest kind, and atthe other the really impressive and extraordinarystone ruins of Yucatan. In the wide intervalsare clitf-dwellings, houses of… … scer/c/ir -^m> Pi/ty JyfjQll f/lurch. MewpOl^ Mexico: Fio. 1. toward the south, till in Yucatan and contigu-ous regions the majority of the im])ortant con-structions are found on artificial sulistructures.In the extreme nortli are tlie great cajim liou.ses,exemjilified in the Casas Grandes ruins…

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