 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1820 - 474 pages
...natives, as burial places for the chiefs of the tribes. Around the Cheops and the Mycerinus in Fgypt, there are eight small pyramids, placed with symmetry,...of stone, and covered with plates of gold, of which ihey were stripped by the soldiers of Cortez.— * Mandelstein of tha 'German mineralogists. When bishop... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...amygdaloid.• This construction recalls to mind that of one of the Egyptian pyramids of Sakharab, which has six stories ; and which, according to Pocock,...Teocallis were two colossal statues of the Sun and Moon : they were of stone, and covered with plates of gold, of which they were stripped by the soldiers... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Polynesians - 1834 - 276 pages
...stones ; and it is encased by a thick wall of tezontli, or porous amygdaloid. This construction recalls to mind that of one of the Egyptian pyramids of Sakharah,...Pocock, is a mass of pebbles and yellow mortar, covered OH the outside with rough stones. On the top of the great Mexican teocallis were two colossal statues... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Ethnology - 1834 - 278 pages
...stones; and it is encased by a thick wall of tezontli, or porous amygdaloid. This construction recalls to mind that of one of the Egyptian pyramids of Sakharah, which has six stories j and which, according to Pocock, is a mass of pebbles and yellow mortar, covered on the outside with... | |
 | William Davis Gallagher, Otway Curry - Literature - 1839 - 438 pages
...of one of the Egyptian pyramids of Sakhara, which has six stories, and which, according to Pococke, is a mass of pebbles and yellow mortar, covered on the outside with rough stones."* The pyramids of Dgizeh, in Egypt, it will be borne in mind, are also surrounded by smaller edifices... | |
 | Baptists - 1839 - 656 pages
...of one of. the Egyptian pyramids of Sakhara, which has six stories, and which, according to Pococke, is a mass of pebbles and yellow mortar, covered on the outside with rough stones." In Hutnboldt's " Essai Politique sur la Nouvelle Espagne," we find a sketch of the teocalli of Cholula,... | |
 | Charles Whittlesey - Geology - 1852 - 416 pages
...of one of the Egyptian pyramids of Sakhara, which has six stories, and which, according to Pococko, is a mass of pebbles and yellow mortar, covered on the outside with rough stones." t The pyramids of Dgizeh, in Egypt, it will be borne inmind, are also surrounded by smaller edifices... | |
 | Charles Whittlesey - Geology - 1852 - 410 pages
...of one of the Egyptian pyramids of Sakhara, which has six stories, and which, according to Pococke, is a mass of pebbles and yellow mortar, covered on the outside with rough stones." f The pyramids of Dgizeh, in Egypt, it will be borne injiiind, are also surrounded by smaller edifices... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - Indians - 1876 - 824 pages
...of these two pyramids recalls to Mr Ranking's mind that of "one of the Egyptian pyramids of Sakhara, which has six stories; and which, according to Pocock,...and yellow mortar, covered on the outside with rough stones."121 In some few instances human remains have been found in American pyramids, though never... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1876 - 828 pages
...recalls to Mr Ranking's mind that of "one of the Egyptian pyramids of Sakhara, which has six stones; and which, according to Pocock, is a mass of pebbles...and yellow mortar, covered on the outside with rough stones."121 In some few instances human remains have been found in American pyramids, though never... | |
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This construction recals to mind that of one of the Egyptian pyramids of Sakharah, which has six stories; and which, according to Pocock, is a mass of pebbles and yellow mortar, covered on the outside with rough stones. 
