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... according to Herodotus, that “ their ancestors, in the ' Lands of the West,' were the oldest men .on earth.” If the opinion of Lyell, Humphry, and a host of modern geologists, regarding the priority of America's antiquity, ...
... according to Herodotus, that “ their ancestors, in the ' Lands of the West,' were the oldest men .on earth.” If the opinion of Lyell, Humphry, and a host of modern geologists, regarding the priority of America's antiquity, ...
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... the inhabitants of the last island (Poseidonis) preserve the memory of the prodigious magnitude of the Atlantic island as related by their ancestors, and of its governing for many periods all the islands in the Atlantic sea.
... the inhabitants of the last island (Poseidonis) preserve the memory of the prodigious magnitude of the Atlantic island as related by their ancestors, and of its governing for many periods all the islands in the Atlantic sea.
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... by the same race now inhabiting the pehinsula or by their near ancestors 1——regardless of Cogolludo's assertion2 “ that it is not known who their builders were, and that the Indians themselves preserved no traditions on the subject; ...
... by the same race now inhabiting the pehinsula or by their near ancestors 1——regardless of Cogolludo's assertion2 “ that it is not known who their builders were, and that the Indians themselves preserved no traditions on the subject; ...
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I myself, on the strength of the name given to the birthplace of their ancestors by the Egyptians, and on. that of the tradition handed down among the aborigines of Yucatan, admitting that one of the names given to the peninsula, Mayab, ...
I myself, on the strength of the name given to the birthplace of their ancestors by the Egyptians, and on. that of the tradition handed down among the aborigines of Yucatan, admitting that one of the names given to the peninsula, Mayab, ...
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The whole hieroglyph, name of the peninsula, reads therefore u-Mayach, the place of the ancestor's cérétrum, or of the. 1 Lands, La 0080!; do Yucatan, chap. univ" p. 206-. ' Wilkinson, Gmtoma and Manners, vol. i., p. 163 (illust.).
The whole hieroglyph, name of the peninsula, reads therefore u-Mayach, the place of the ancestor's cérétrum, or of the. 1 Lands, La 0080!; do Yucatan, chap. univ" p. 206-. ' Wilkinson, Gmtoma and Manners, vol. i., p. 163 (illust.).
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LXHI Javelin Head and Arrow Points found with the Charred | 159 |
Portrait of Queen M60 From a demirelief adorning | 166 |
Portrait of Bishop Lands second Bishop of Yucatan | 169 |
LXVHI Mezzorelievo in Stucco on the Frieze of the Temple | 197 |
Fresco Painting in the Funeral Chamber of Prince Cohs | 222 |
The Lord of the Yucatan Forests From life | 236 |
Part of Facade of the Sanctuary at Uxmal Cosmic | 256 |
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