Image: The earth and its inhabitants (1882) (14777595355)

Description: Identifier: earthitsinhabita18recl (find matches) Title: The earth and its inhabitants .. Year: 1882 (1880s) Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, Augustus Henry, 1833-1912 Subjects: Geography Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: 72-4 • S75 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 survivein 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 badtaste, but prodigiously rich in the interior, as if to efface the memory of the old Text Appearing After Image: ou g o o< QH ao Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The earth and its inhabitants (1882) (14777595355)
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