"Latrobe" Quotes from Famous Books
... leading up the summit have been observed. In 1824 Bullock (who, however, is not regarded as a very accurate observer) "found the whole mountain had been covered with palaces, temples, baths, hanging-gardens, and so forth." Latrobe, somewhat later, found "fragments of pottery and broken pieces of obsidian knives and arrows; pieces of stucco, shattered terraces, and old walls were thickly dispersed over its whole surface." Mr. Mayer, after speaking of the abundance ... — The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen |