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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 16 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 7 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 5 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
of two days had collected more than six hundred; with which we were no less rejoiced, as long as we were ignorant of their real value, than the Indians with our glass beads. Ancient American Bronzes.Copper.Tin.Iron. Chisel from silver-mines, Cuzco946 Chisel from Cuzco92.3857.615 Knife from grave, Atacama97.872.13 Knife964 Crowbar from Chili92.3857.615 Knife from Amaro95.6643.9350.371 Perforated axe964 Personal ornament, Truigilla95.4404.560 Bodkin from grave96.703.30 The bronzCuzco92.3857.615 Knife from grave, Atacama97.872.13 Knife964 Crowbar from Chili92.3857.615 Knife from Amaro95.6643.9350.371 Perforated axe964 Personal ornament, Truigilla95.4404.560 Bodkin from grave96.703.30 The bronzes of Europe took a much wider range of variation. Copper.Tin.LeadIron. Spear-head, Lincolnshire8614 Bronze vessel, Cambridgeshire8812 Flexible nails201 Sword, France87.4712.53 Medal1008-12 Axe-head, Mid-Lothian88.511.120.78 Caldron, Duddingstone84.87.198.53 Mirrors10030-50 Sword, Ireland83.505.158.353 Sword, Thames89.699.580.33 Axe-head, Ireland89 339 190.33 Drinking-horn, Kings Co., Ireland79.3410.879.11 Wedge, Ireland945.90.1 See also Brasses and Bronzes, with the additio
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
rom which every house was supplied by a pipe, as in modern cities. Cortez, in his first letter to Charles V., mentions the spring of Amilco, near Churubusco, of which the water was conveyed to the city of Mexico in two large pipes, molded and hard as stone, but the waters never ran but in one at the same time. The Spaniards destroyed it, of course. Humboldt saw the remains of it, and says it was inferior to the aqueduct of Tezcuco. The inca Garcilasso de la Vega was born in 1539 at Cusco, in Peru, about eight years after the Spanish invasion. His mother was a native princess, his father a Spaniard. He writes as follows of the Peruvian aqueducts:— The seventh inca, Viracocha, made an aqueduct 12 feet in depth and 120 leagues in length; the source or head of it arose from certain springs on the top of a high mountain between Parcu and Picuy, which was so plentiful that at the very head of the fountains they seemed to be rivers. This current of water had its course throu