| John L. Stephens - Yucatán (Mexico : State) - 1843 - 562 pages
...interesting than any connected with its own ruin ; one that carries the beholder back through centunes of time, and tells the story of a greater and a sadder...moment be supposed that the Spaniards constructed anything so different from their known rules of architecture; and beyond doubt it formed part of one... | |
| John L. Stephens - Yucatán (Mexico : State) - 1855 - 558 pages
...of time, and tells the story of a greater and a sadder fall. In one of the lower cloisters going oat from the north, and under the principal dormitory,...moment be supposed that the Spaniards constructed anything so different from their known rules of architecture ; and beyond doubt it formed part of one... | |
| JOHN L. STEPHENS - 1868 - 506 pages
...their long blue gowns rose up before him, now scattered forever, and their home a desolation ana ruin. But this convent contains one memorial far more interesting...moment be supposed that the Spaniards constructed anything so different from their known rules of architecture ; and beyond doubt it formed part of one... | |
| Frank Collins Baker - Cuba - 1895 - 194 pages
...convent. In one of the corridors going north is seen that peculiar arch so puzzling to archaeologists — two sides rising to meet each other, and covered, when within about a foot of each other, by a flat layer of stones. On the afternoon of our third day in Merida we left that city... | |
| Frank Collins Baker - Cuba - 1895 - 194 pages
...In one of the corridors going north is seen that peculiar arch so puzzling to archaeologists—two sides rising to meet each other, and covered, when within about a foot of each other, by a flat layer of stones. On the afternoon of our third day in Merida we left that city... | |
| John L. Stephens - Travel - 1963 - 324 pages
...their long blue gowns rose up before him, now scattered forever, and their home a desolation and ruin. But this convent contains one memorial far more interesting...moment be supposed that the Spaniards constructed anything so different from their known rules of architecture; and beyond doubt it formed part of one... | |
| Richard D. Perry - Travelers - 2001 - 324 pages
...their long blue gowns rose up before him, now scattered forever, and their home a desolation and ruin. But this convent contains one memorial far more interesting...moment be supposed that the Spaniards constructed anything so different from their known rules of architecture; and beyond doubt it formed part of one... | |
| |