Researches, concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America : with descriptions and views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! . aneousfire has pierced through an enormous crevice,which exists in the bowels of the Earth betweenthe latitudes of 18° 59 and 19° 12, and stretchesfrom the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. * Political Essay, torn. 1, p. 47. MM CALENDAR MUVSCA INDIANS, THE ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF THE PLAIN OF BOGOTA. PLATE XLIV. A stone, covered with hieroglyphic signs ofthe lunar calendar, and representing- the order inwhich the intercala
Researches, concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America : with descriptions and views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! . aneousfire has pierced through an enormous crevice,which exists in the bowels of the Earth betweenthe latitudes of 18° 59 and 19° 12, and stretchesfrom the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. * Political Essay, torn. 1, p. 47. MM CALENDAR MUVSCA INDIANS, THE ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF THE PLAIN OF BOGOTA. PLATE XLIV. A stone, covered with hieroglyphic signs ofthe lunar calendar, and representing- the order inwhich the intercalations, that bring back theorigin of the year to the same season, is made, isa monument so much the more remarkable, as itis the work of a people, whose name is almostentirely unknown in Europe, and who have beenhitherto confounded with the wandering tribesof the savages of South America. For the dis-covery of this monument we are indebted to DonJose Domingo Duqnesne of Madrid, canon ofthe metropolitan church of Santa Fe de ecclesiastic, a native of the kingdom of NewGrenada, and descended from a French familysettled in Spain, was long the vicar of an Indian.
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