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The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 4, Antiquities, Volume 4

Note V-102 — Chapter V · ANTIQUITIES OF YUCATAN. (continued 2)

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'La piedra margosa de que están formados tales edificios, es ademas generalmente considerada como un material muy inferior para la construccion.' Friederichsthal, in Dicc. Univ., tom. x., p. 292. The blocks 'ont une transparence troublée comme celle du gypse. Il est probable ... que c'est du véritable carbonate calcaire.' Zavala, in Antiq. Mex., tom. i., div. ii., p. 34. 'A soft coralline limestone of a comparatively recent geological formation, probably of the Tertiary period.' Foster's Pre-Hist. Races, p. 398.

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