 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 páginas
...they answered with a smile, as if THE HABVEST OF EGGS. 133 relating a fact of which only a white man could be ignorant, that "at the period of the great...waters, their fathers went to that height in boats." A fresh breeze carrying the travellers towards the Boca de la Tortuga they landed at an island in the... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 páginas
...been sculptured, they answer with a smile, as relating a fact of which a stranger, a white man only, could be ignorant, that " at the period of the great...boats." These ancient traditions of the human race, which we find dispersed over the whole surface of the Globe, like the relics of a vast shipwreck, are... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 páginas
...been sculptured, they answer with a smile, as relating a fact of which a stranger, a white man only, could be ignorant, that " at the period of the great...boats." These ancient traditions of the human race, which we find dispersed over the whole surface of the Globe, like the relics of a vast shipwreck, are... | |
 | 1819 - 596 páginas
...been sculptured, they answer with a smile, as relating a fact of which a stranger, a white man only, could be ignorant, that " at the period of the great...waters, their fathers went to that height in boats."— pp. 472, 473. Our Our travellers landed on an island near the Boca de la Tortuga, celebrated for the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 páginas
...been sculptured, they answer with a smile, as relating a fact of which a stranger, a white man only, could be ignorant, that " at the period of the great...waters, their fathers went to that height in boats."— pp. 472, 473. Our Our travellers landed on an island near the Boca de la Toituga, celebrated for the... | |
 | 1820 - 870 páginas
...were sculptured, they answer with a smile, as relating a fact of which a stranger, a white man only could be ignorant, that, " at the period of the great...their fathers went to that height in boats." These memorials of a deluge, in a country subject to annual inundations, are certainly very singular. The... | |
 | William Bingley - 1820 - 368 páginas
...relating a fact of which a stranger only could have been ignorant, that at the period of the great water*, their fathers went to that height in boats. These ancient traditions of the human race, which we find dispersed over the whole surface of the globe, like the relics of a vast shipwreck, are... | |
 | 1821 - 702 páginas
...been sculptured, they an. swer with a smile, as relating a fact of which a stranger, a white man only, could be ignorant, that ' at the period of the great waters, their fathers tvent to that height in boats.'" Vol. IV. p. 471. These sculptured rocks, of which so curious an account... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1825 - 602 páginas
...been sculptured, they answer with a smile, as relating a fact of which a stranger, a white man only, could be ignorant, that " at the period of the great...boats." These ancient traditions of the human race, which we find dispersed over the whole surface of the Globe, like the relics of a vast shipwreck, are... | |
 | James Haines McCulloh - 1829 - 548 páginas
...constructing lofty scaffolds. When the natives are asked to explain this circumstance, they relate, that at the period of the great waters their fathers went to that height in boats. Sir Walter Raleigh, I believe, was the first person who made the Europeans acquainted with the circumstance,... | |
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... could be accessible only by constructing very lofty scaffolds. When the natives are asked how those figures could have been sculptured, they answer with a smile, as relating a fact of which a stranger, a white man only, could be ignorant, that " at... 
