 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - America - 1877 - 380 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,...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... | |
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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. 
