Word: peninsula
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...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 to American matters and the account of his journeyings are very amusing. The number ends with the usual departments...
...wish to call attention to the lecture on "Petra and the Sinaitic Peninsula" which is to be given under the auspices of the Harvard Classical Club on Wednesday evening. The subject is one which ought to attract many interested in biblical history. The Classical Club is to be congratulated on its enterprise in securing the able services of the two gentlemen who are to lecture on this hitherto slightly known topic...
Harvard Classical Club. Illustrated Lecture. Petra and the Sinaitic Peninsula. E. S. Philbrick, Esq., and Professor J. B. Greenough. Upper Boylston...
...plan; its sculptural and pictorial decoration. The vault, the arch, the column, the capitol. Historical sculptures and enamelled bricks. Religious sculpture. Bronze work. [Industrial arts. Babylonia and Assyria in their foreign relations. Early relations between Egypt and Babylonia; did any exist before the xviii dynasty? The Mt. Siani peninsula and the quarry-marks on the Tel-Loh sculptures. Relations with Elam; - with Syria and the Hittites; - with Phoenicia and Cyprus; - with North Arabia; - with Persia The reciprocal influence of Babylonian and Assyrian art and the artistic development of the peoples of these countries. The influence of Babylonian and Assyrian...
...believe, which took Cotton and the other Emmanuel men to the New World, he is found before long in the New England Charlestown, where he built a house, which Judge Sewall tells us of, and which seems to have stood till the fire which swept the slopes of that peninsula during the battle of Bunker Hill, levelled it to the soil...