 | 1842 - 594 páginas
...and on all four of the sides, from the base to the top. The front was the figure of a man curiously and richly dressed, and the face evidently a portrait,...terror. The back was of a different design, unlike any thing we had ever seen before, and the sides were covered with hieroglyphics. This our guide called... | |
 | 1843 - 758 páginas
...and on all four of the sides, from the base to the top. The front was the figure of a man curiously and richly dressed, and the face, evidently a portrait,...terror. The back was of a different design, unlike any thing we had ever seen before, and the sides were covered with hieroglyphics. This our guide called... | |
 | 1843 - 332 páginas
...and on all four of the sides, from the base to the top. The front was the figure of a man curiously and richly dressed, and the face, evidently a portrait,...terror. The back was of a different design, unlike any thing we had ever seen before, and the sides were covered with hieroglyphics. This our guide called... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 248 páginas
...relief on all four of the sides from the base to the top. The front was the figure of a man, curiously and richly dressed, and the face, evidently a portrait,...feet was a large block of stone, also sculptured with figures and emblematical devices, which he called an altar. The sight of this monument put at rest,... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 páginas
...and on all four of the sides from the base to the top. The front was the figure of a man, curiously and richly dressed, and the face evidently a portrait,...was of a different design, unlike anything we had seen before ; and the sides were covered with hieroglyphics. This our guide called an idol ; and before... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 526 páginas
...and on all four of the sides from the base to the top. The front was the figure of a man, curiously and richly dressed, and the face evidently a portrait...and well fitted to excite terror. The back was of a difler' ent design, unlike anything we had seen before ; and the sides were cov ered with hieroglyphics.... | |
 | 1850 - 570 páginas
...The front was the figure of a man curiously and richly dressed, and the face evidently a portrait. The back was of a different design, unlike anything...before, and the sides were covered with hieroglyphics" Symbolical instruction has passed in Europe by a graduation which it is easy to trace, down to our... | |
 | 1850 - 574 páginas
...The front was the figure of a man curiously and richly dressed, and the face evidently a portrait. The back was of a different design, unlike anything...we had ever seen before, and the sides were covered icith hieroglyphies." These symbolical customs are still retained, according to this authority, to... | |
 | 1851 - 452 páginas
...richly dressed, and the face evidently a portrait. The back was of a different design, unlike any thing we had ever seen before, and the sides were covered with hieroglyphics. These symbolical customs are still retained, according to this authority, to a certain extent, by the... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1854 - 638 páginas
...and on all four of the sides, from the base to the top. The front was the figure of a man, curiously and richly dressed, and the face, evidently a portrait,...and before it, at a distance of three feet, was a largo block of stone, also sculptured with figures and emblematical devices, which he called an altar.... | |
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Diverging from the base, and working our way through the thick woods, we came upon a square stone column, about fourteen feet high and three feet on each side, sculptured in very bold relief, and on all four of the sides, from the base to the top. The... 
