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About two in the afternoon there was a little earthquake, the noise being heard from the mountains, would have given the people time to save themselves, tho' it had been violent. These earthquakes are so frequent at Acapulco, that the people are…

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And Gemelli Careri relates, that when he was at Mexico, in the Year 1698, being carried to the Village of Teotiguacan, which signifies a Place of Gods, about a Day’s Journey from that City, to see some Indian Antiquities; he found two Pyramids of…

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Besides the palace in which, Motezuma kept his court, he had several magnificent pleasure-houses; in one of which, a pompous building supported by pillars of jasper, he kept an aviary of birds, remarkable either for their singing or feathers, so…

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Campeachy>/i> is a fair Town, standing on the shore in a small bending of the Land; and is the only Town on all this Coast, even from Cape Catoch to La vera Cruz, that stands open to the Sea. It makes a fine show, being build all with good…

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But there was a building in the most solitary part of the gardens, which surprised the Spaniards more than any thing they met with, and it was called the House of Sorrow, because the emperor used to retire thither on the death of his relations, or on…

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“But the most singular of all Motezuma‘s edifices was his house of sorrow, to which he retired in case of any public calamity, or at the death of a favourite relation. It was well calculated for promoting gloomy reflections, for the walls, roofs, and…

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The Cathedral, like most others, is built in form of a Cross, lofty and spacious; the Painting, Gilding and Carving exquisite; and it contains abundance of Altars and Chapels on each side, the High Altar standing in the middle of the Choir.

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Near the beginning of this aqueduct is Chapultepec, the burial-place of the Spanish viceroys, as it was formerly of the Mexican emperors. Here is a sumptuous palace, with fine gardens and water-works, and a beautiful chapel, the ornaments whereof are…

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Churches and convents are magnificent and richly adorned; and on high festivals, the display of gold and silver, and precious stones, is such as exceed the conception of an European.

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Herrera informs us, That in Ferdinand Cortez’s Palace in Mexico, there were seven thousand Beams of Cedar

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[…] which is nothing in comparison to a Church built on the Foot of that Mountain, very magnificent, adorned with Lamps, Images, and Candlesticks of Gold and Silver; besides vast Quantities of Pearls, Emeralds, and other precious Stones. This Church…

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The Mexican Temples, at the Arrival of the Spaniards, were eight at Mexico, of equal Grandeur and Magnificence, built much alike, except that of Vitzliputzly, which excelled all the others in Bigness…

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Churches and convents are magnificent and richly adorned; and on high festivals, the display of gold and silver, and precious stones, is such as exceed the conception of an European.

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Father Cairo informs us, that the natives are tolerably well shaped, and very ingenious, that they live without houses, or any shelter but trees in the summer, and caves in the winter

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Father Cairo informs us, that the natives are tolerably well shaped, and very ingenious, that they live without houses, or any shelter but trees in the summer, and caves in the winter

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What is most remarkable besides in Mexico, is the vast spacious Market-Place, or Square in the middle of the Town; on one Side whereof runs a Cloyster, under which are some of the richest Shops in the World; and on the other, stands the magnificent…

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The floors were covered with mats, the walls with cotton hangings, interwoven with furs of rabbits; and the innermost rooms were adorned with a kind of tapestry made of feathers: the roofs were cypress, cedar and other odoriferous woods, ornamented…

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The Mexicans were, in many instances, far advanced in the arts when their empire was overthrown by Cortez. Several of their public buildings were executed with taste and magnificence, the ornaments of their temples were splendid, and their gold…

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Dans le nombre de colonnes qui étoient isolées, & dont l´usage, selon Pline, est de toute antiquité, la plupart étoit couronnées par des pommes de pin ou des pommes de grenade; les unes portoient des globes ou des hémisphères, comme celles que…

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Ce simulacre, couronné de sept étoiles, designant les planetes, répond a la théogonie des anciens Peuples d´Assyrie, de Chaldée, de l´Egypte, & de l´Ethiopie; à celle de l´ancienne Grèce & des Peuples du Mexique , enfin à celle des Sabins…

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There is in Mexico a pleasant ring or park planted with trees, and adorned with fountains and water-works, whither the quality of both sexes, and the gay part of the town, resort every evening.

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This famous city stands on a lake of its own name, on the east side of a valley, at the foot of a ridge of hills; and is only to be approached by five causes: but has no gates, walls, or artillery. It is one of the most regularly built cities in the…

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it will be a matter of singular surprise to behold one of the most dreary rocks, embellished with an agreeable villa, where the mines of Mexico have been lavished to effect the alteration. Such is the royal feat of St. Ildefonso; for in few parts of…

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Churches and convents are magnificent and richly adorned; and on high festivals, the display of gold and silver, and precious stones, is such as exceed the conception of an European.

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Herrera informs us, That in Ferdinand Cortez’s Palace in Mexico, there were seven thousand Beams of Cedar

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The Palace of the Marquis de Valle, the Successor of the celebrated Cortez who conquered Mexico, is built on the Ground where one of the Palaces of the Emperor Montezuma stood, and admir’d for its Dimensions and Structure.

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Churches and convents are magnificent and richly adorned; and on high festivals, the display of gold and silver, and precious stones, is such as exceed the conception of an European.

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That the two Sides of the Pyramid of the Moon were two hundred Spanish Yards in Length each, and the other two an hundred fifty Spanish Yards in Length

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And Gemelli Careri relates, that when he was at Mexico, in the Year 1698, being carried to the Village of Teotiguacan, which signifies a Place of Gods, about a Day’s Journey from that City, to see some Indian Antiquities; he found two Pyramids of…

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And Gemelli Careri relates, that when he was at Mexico, in the Year 1698, being carried to the Village of Teotiguacan, which signifies a Place of Gods, about a Day’s Journey from that City, to see some Indian Antiquities; he found two Pyramids of…

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The Temples were mostly built of Clay, like the Egyptian Pyramids, with Stairs to ascend them.

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According to their Traditions, these Pyramids were built by the Ulmeco’s, a People which came by the Sea from the East; which gave some Europeans reason to conjecture, they were Colonies of the Egyptians and Carthaginians, who sometimes joined their…

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That within the Pyramid were several Vaults, where the Kings had been buried; for which reason the Road it was called Micaotli, or the Highway of the Dead; and about it were several little Mounts, or Tumuli, supposed to be the Burying-places of their…

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And Gemelli Careri relates, that when he was at Mexico, in the Year 1698, being carried to the Village of Teotiguacan, which signifies a Place of Gods, about a Day’s Journey from that City, to see some Indian Antiquities; he found two Pyramids of…

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“a square Mount of Earth and Stone, fifty Fathom long every Way, built upwards like to a Pyramid of Egypt, saving that the Top was not sharp, but plain and flat, and then Fathom square. Upon the West Side were Steps up to the Top; ” they were on the…

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Churches and convents are magnificent and richly adorned; and on high festivals, the display of gold and silver, and precious stones, is such as exceed the conception of an European.

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The figures of serpents, of tigers, and of other destructive animals decorated their temples.

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About two in the afternoon there was a little earthquake, the noise being heard from the mountains, would have given the people time to save themselves, tho' it had been violent. These earthquakes are so frequent at Acapulco, that the people are…

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Thus they distinguished their several Idols, and what they were Guardians of, by different Devices of Painting or carv’d Work, and their Temples were as august and costly as any in the World.

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The figures of serpents, of tigers, and of other destructive animals decorated their temples.

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And Gemelli Careri relates, that when he was at Mexico, in the Year 1698, being carried to the Village of Teotiguacan, which signifies a Place of Gods, about a Day’s Journey from that City, to see some Indian Antiquities; he found two Pyramids of…

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By the Account Gemelli *gives us of the Mexican Pyramids at Teotiguacan, (which in that Language signifies a Place of Gods, or of Adoration) they, like the Egyptian, were erected both for the Sepulchres, and the Worship of their Gods.

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The figures of serpents, of tigers, and of other destructive animals decorated their temples.

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