 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1847 - 714 pages
...full thirty-eight feet long by eighteen broad, and six feet thick.1 We are filled with astonishment when we consider that these enormous masses were hewn...burden, were transported across rivers and ravines, raised to their elevated position on the sierra, and finally adjusted there with the nicest accuracy,... | |
 | 1847 - 828 pages
...astonishment when we consider that these enormous masses were icwn irom their native bed, and fashioned nto shape, by a people ignorant of the use of iron ; that...leagues distant, without the aid of beasts of burden, ware .ransported across rivers and ravines, raised o their elevated position on the sierra, and inally... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1848 - 530 pages
...full thirty-eight feet long by eighteen broad, and six feet thick.]: We are filled with astonishment when we consider that these enormous masses were hewn...quarries, from four to fifteen leagues distant, § without * Betanzos, Suma, y Narracion of some unknown author, somede los Yngas, MS., cap. xii.— where probably... | |
 | George CUBITT (Wesleyan Minister.) - Peru - 1849 - 168 pages
...natural science. Mr. Prescott's remarks are seriously suggestive. " We are filled with astonishment when we consider that these enormous masses were hewn...burden ; were transported across rivers and ravines, raised to their elevated position on the sierra, and finally adjusted there with the nicest accuracy,... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - Indians of North America - 1853 - 732 pages
...vast size; some of them being full thirty-eight feet long, by eighteen broad, and six feet thick. * * These enormous- masses were hewn from their native...into shape by a people ignorant of the use of iron ; they were brought from quarries, from four to fifteen leagues distant, without the aid of beasts... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - Indians - 1856 - 742 pages
...vast size; some of them being full thirty-eight feet long, by eighteen broad, and six feet thick. * * These enormous masses were hewn from their native...into shape by a people ignorant of the use of iron ; they were brought from quarries, from four to fifteen leagues distant, without the aid of beasts... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - Indians - 1860 - 736 pages
...vast size ; some of them being full thirty-eight feet long, by eighteen broad, and six feet thick. * * These enormous masses were hewn from their native...into shape by a people ignorant of the use of iron ; they were brought from quarries, from four to fifteen leagues distant, without the aid of beasts... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1874 - 550 pages
...full thirty-eight feet long, by eighteen broad, and six feet thick. "^ We are filled with astonishment when we consider that these enormous masses were hewn...fashioned into shape by a people ignorant of the use ofigiron ; that they were brought from quarries, from four to fifteen leagues distant,24 without the... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Cuzco (Peru) - 1885 - 272 pages
...convinced of the Inca's defection, * " We are filled with astonishment when we consider that those enormous masses were hewn from their native bed, and...burden ; were transported across rivers and ravines, raised to their elevated position on the sierra, and finally adjusted there with the nicest accuracy,... | |
 | Mormons - 1889 - 656 pages
...thirty-eight feet long, by eighteen broad, and six feet thick." He says: "We are filled with astonishment when we consider that these enormous masses were hewn from their native bed, fashioned into shape, and brought from quarries that were four to fifteen leagues distant, were transported... | |
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We are filled with astonishment when we consider that these enormous masses were hewn from their native bed and fashioned into shape by a people ignorant of the use of iron ; that they were brought from quarries from four to fifteen leagues... 
