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Narrative and critical history of America (1884)

Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, Maclean, John, 1851-1928, association, MacLean, Harrison John (autograph) · Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 303

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progress. Whentheir ancestor first arrived at Cuzco he had before hira the cyclopean laborsof a former dynasty on the heights of the Sacsahuaman. Two mountainstreams flowed from either side of that hill and united in the plain, oftenoverflowing their banks and forming swamps. The Incas drained the… … LAKE TITICACA.* Two styles are discernible in Inca architecture. The earliest is an imi-tation of the cyclopean works of their ancestors on a smaller scale. Thewalls were built with polygonal-shaped stones with rough surfaces, but thestones were much reduced in size. Rows of doorways with slanting…

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