 | William Hickling Prescott - 1843 - 514 páginas
...occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present ; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets, and, in the midst, — like...reposing, as it were, on the bosom of the waters, 11 The lake of Tezcuco, on above the sea. Humboldt, Essai which stood the capital of Mexico, Politique,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1843 - 480 páginas
...occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets, and, in the midst, — like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls,-—the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1844 - 592 páginas
...occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present ; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets, and, in the midst, — like...reposing, as it were, on the bosom of the waters, » The lake of Tezcuco, on above the sea. Humboldt, Essai which stood the capital of Mexico, Politique, torn.... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 páginas
...centre of this great basin, lay the wondrous lakes and lakelets of Anahuac, their borders "studded with towns and hamlets, and in the midst — like...towers and pyramidal temples, reposing as it were upon the bosom of the waters." We know, from the days of Caesar, that, with a great genius, to come... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1844 - 326 páginas
...occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets, and, in the midst, — like some Indian empress 10 Humboldt, Essai Potilique, torn. iv. p. 17. " The lake of Tezcuco, on which stood the capital of... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 páginas
...centre of this great basin lay the wondrous lakes and lakelets of Anahuac, their borders " studded with towns and hamlets, and in the midst — like...empress, with her coronal of pearls, — the fair eity of Mexico, with her white towers and pyramidal temples, reposing as it were upon the bosom of... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 páginas
...blooming gardens. In the centre of the great basin were beheld the lakes, their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets ; and in the midst, like some...the waters— the far-famed ' Venice of the Aztecs.' "Descending into the valley, the Spaniards halted at Ajotzinco, a town an the banks of the southernmost... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1850 - 586 páginas
...or, flushed with victory and conquest, turned their eyes upon the same glorious scenes, beholding, "in the midst, — like some Indian empress with her...the waters, — the far-famed ' Venice of the Aztecs !' "f The Valley of Mexico, or Tenochtitlan, as it was called * These two mountains, in former times,... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 páginas
...occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present; their borders thickly 7 studded with towns and hamlets ; and, in the midst, like some...waters : the farfamed ' Venice of the Aztecs.' High above all, arose the 8 royal hill of Chapoltepec, (the residence of the Mexican monarchs,) crowned... | |
 | Brantz Mayer - 1852 - 478 páginas
...1 Between nine and ten thousand feet above the level of the sea, at this point of the road. studded with towns and hamlets, and, in the midst, — like...the Aztecs.' High over all rose the royal hill of Chapultepec, the residence of the Mexican monarchs, belted with the same grove of gigantic cypresses,... | |
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In the centre of the great basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present, their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets ; and in the midst — like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls... 
