The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 130
ents of New Spain must have existed longbefore the VisiffOths entered the mother country. Concerning the domestic architecture of ancientMexico, nothing has been definitely ascertained savethat the dwellings of the rich were of a light-redporous stone surmounted by a terraced roof clad in * I he i… … IOS MEX1 ENTRAL AMERICA, AND* PERU. verdure, while the huts of the poor were either ofIs, or adobe thatched with grasses and aloe leaves.Hence we who would know more but lack the enter-■ and ingenuity, can only wait and hope for someCharapollion of the future to read the inscriptionsand tell the…
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