Word: yucatan
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...Sweet, president of the Boston Camera Club, has hall several very handsome enlargements of photographs of temples in Yucatan made and presented to the Peabody Museum...
...extracts from the diary of Rev. Manasseh Cutler follow, illustrating "Church-going in New York City in 1787." Mrs. Plongeon contributes the first part of a paper on the "Conquest of the Mayos." The writer gives a summary of what is known of the early history of Yucatan and adds an account of the battles between the Spaniards and the natives for the possession of the peninsula. Colonel Baillie, a member of the English Parliament, kept a journal while visiting this country in 1828, of which several portions are printed in this number. The impressions of the traveller in regard...
...Discovery of Yucatan" is a charmingly written sketch by Alice D. Le Plougeon. The writer's treatment of the subject is so natural and easy that one seems to be reading a story rather than a page of history. "The Historical Sketch of Christ Church, New York City," is an interesting paper by William J. Danes. Then follows "The Fundamental Principles of our Government," a sound and able treatment of the subject by Franklin A. Beecher...
...Agassiz lectured last evening in Sanders Theatre, under the auspices of the Art Club and the Philological Society, to a rather small audience. The lecturer gave a general sketch of the ruins in Yucatan and of their importance, after which he illustrated his remarks by a number of rather faint views. He said that the ruins of Yucatan form the best example of the ancient civilization on this continent, and that from these remains a much better idea of the ancient people can be obtained than from the fabulous accounts of the Spaniards. Yucatan was the centre of a civilization...
...Agassiz lectures in Sanders Theatre this evening on the "Ruins of Yucatan...