 | Tobias Merton - 1824 - 488 pages
...palaces. We shall extract the following description of the city of Utatlan. " Santa Cruz del Qniclie is a village seated on an extensive open plain, fertile...the large and opulent city of Utatlan, the court of tlie native kings of Quiche, and indubitably the most sumptuous that was discovered by the Spaniards... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 480 pages
...walls and mouldering palaces. We shall extract the following description of the city of Utatian. " Santa Cruz del Quiche is a village seated on an extensive...priory. The history of this place is singular, as it %vas ouce the large aud opulent city of L Intimi, the court of the native kings of Quiche, aud indubitably... | |
 | Frederick Crowe - Baptists - 1850 - 652 pages
...the larger buildings they contained, assisted by the more certain evidence of their actual remains. The large and opulent city of Utatlan, the court of the native kings of Quiche, was indubitably the most sumptuous discovered by the Spaniards in that country. Fuentes, before quoted,... | |
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Santa Cruz del Quiche is a village seated on an extensive open plain, fertile in the extreme, producing grain, vegetables, and delicate fruits, in proportionate abundance. It is but moderately populous, and contains a Dominican convent with the title... 