The Cingel is the innermost of four large and nearly parallel canals, which, following the crescent-shape boundary of the city of Amsterdam
City of Amsterdam, view on the Cingel, Netherlands 1832.
Tag: Travel
Historical travel literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. The discovery of the world
Amsterdam. The Damrak Palace &c. rendered very picturesque.
Select views of some of the principal cities of Europe by Robert Batty. London: Moon, Boys, and Graves, 1832.
Rotterdam, the Oude Haven. General characteristic of Dutch cities.
The annexed scene of the Oude Haven, in Rotterdam, has been selected as an epitome of the general characteristics of Dutch cities.
Side view of the Peruvian Mummy from the necropolis of Ancon.
The disproportion is still greater in the case of the pillow forming the false head. The latter, is here represented without its envelopments, thus giving striking prominence to the peculiarities of the vividly painted features.
Peruvian Mummy. Front and back view of the false head.
Peruvian mummy. Front and back view of the false head of the Mummy. It consists of a square kind of cushion stuffed with leaves and seaweed.
Sections of the graves at the Necropolis of Ancon, Peru.
Notwithstanding the exact measurements taken of individual graves, these sections must still be so far regarded as ideal
Interments under fragments of earthenware.
Here we have a characteristic instance of the burials under fragments of thick-ribbed clay vessels
Interments under earthenware vessels. The necropolis of Ancon.
The body is seated in a crouching attitude and wrapped in cerements under one of those capacious earthenware vessels
Solitary grave of a simple equipped Mummies.
In a grave scarcely 3 metres deep we see a shapeless mummy pack bound round with a netting of cordage, its cotton wrapping coloured a deep brown with decay.
Exposed graves with Mummies of simple type.
Bleached bones, scattered shreds of raiment, bast coverings and cordage used in the careful preservation of the bodies.