The earth and its inhabitants (1894) (14579804998)

Identifier: earthitsinhabita941recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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West ot breenwich 72-4- 875 Yards. stone walls, as if built for fortresses, while the light superstructure with its red-tiled roof reveals its modern origin. Most of the temples and palaces still survivem analogous form, serving as foundations to the present churches, convents,warehouses and private mansions. These old structures were concentratedespecially along the banks of the Huatanay, or western torrent, and here theobserver admires the wonderful accuracy with which these undressed cyclopicblocks were put together. Formerly many of the houses were decorated withplates of gold both on the inner and outer surfaces. On one side of the great square stands the cathedral, a Spanish structure in bad.taste, but prodigiously rich in the interior, as if to efface the memory of the old
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