It seems much more probable that, at the time of their entrance into the interior valleys, the Tinguian were already acquainted with terraced hillside fields, and that they developed them as needed.
The results seemed to indicate that the tales reflect a time before the Tinguian possessed terraced rice-fields, when domestic work animals were still unknown, and the horse had not yet been introduced into the land.
It has been terraced in stone by Igorot labourers; the trees originally standing in it have been protected, and tree ferns, shrubs and flowering plants have been added.
A system of excellent horse trails affords communication with neighbouring provinces where one may see wonderful tropical vegetation, magnificent scenery, strange wild peoples, and the most remarkable terraced mountainsides in the world.
Practically all the immediate territory on the right hand of the trail between Bagnen and Sagada is occupied by the beautifully terraced rice sementeras of Balugan; the valley contains more than a thousand acres so cultivated.
In order to drive them out it would have been necessary to land in the surf under fire, and storm the heights by scaling the precipitous terraced front of the rampart on the sea side.
And there was the church, then new, that still stands to the glory of its builders; with terraced steeple and pillared porch and the widest of checker-paned sashes to let in the light on high-backed pews and gallery.
Yes, here was Brampton, and in spite of the haze the sun had never shone so brightly on the terraced steeple of the meeting-house.
Entering this again, and attracted by the distant murmur of voices, he discovered a staircase at the end of a passage, ascending which, he immediately found himself on the terraced roof of the building.
If she went out, she could not go up the lane without passing the gates of Kynaston, or towards the village without catching sight of the venerable old house among its terraced gardens, which, so lately, she had thought would be her home.
Ida is there very beautiful; and if I look to the landward side, right at my feet are the terraced gardens of the palace.
Near Nice there is a hill which gives a wonderfully correct idea of the appearance of the terraced teocallis of Mexico, as they must have looked before time effaced the sharpness of their lines.
The Battalion was in reserve, and bivouacked on a terraced hillside which was covered with fig trees and vines.
Nearing the bullock-house it suddenly took a sweep to the left in the form of a wide horseshoe, and in this bend or pocket was situated the bungalow, with a pretty terraced garden sloping gently to the stream.
The ladies are seated round the terraced grand stand; long strings of horses are being led round and round in a circle, by the syces; vehicles of every description are lying round the building.
The face of the mountain fell grandly away in terraced slopes, rows of great krantzes intervening.
Lebombo, right at hand--with its grand terraced heights of bosh and forest and krantz.
There the old inn stood, a blot within the terraced grounds and clean-cut park, unsightly to his eyes, and the humorous butt of his patrons.
Where he had hunted rabbits and slept under a tent of tattered carpet during the warm summer nights stood a gaudily-painted hotel, flanked with wide verandahs and terraced lawns.
It has every kind of cultivation from narrow terraced kalsà fields built laboriously up steep mountain slopes to very rich lands watered by canal cuts from the Dor or Haro.
They tend the cattle in the pastures, keep the irrigation channels and the walls of the terraced fields in repair, and do the ploughing.
It therefore includes cultivation of all sorts from rich irrigated rice fields to narrow plots terraced up mountain slopes on which buckwheat and the beardless Tibetan barley are grown.
It must suffice to say that before their eyes the Seven Cities of Cibola faded into phantoms, or rather contracted into villages of terraced houses like that they had captured.
Here were terraced gardens reached by a stairway of five hundred and twenty steps, many of them hewn in the native rock.
Their crops, too, and all other supplies, stored in dark little rooms of the terraced houses, had been destroyed, and they were in sore want.
He learned what he could of the strange terraced towns of which he got a glimpse, and returned to Mexico with great news.
The officious Indians piloted them hither and yon, showing them the strange terraced houses of many stories in height, the great reservoirs in the eternal rock, and the dizzy brink which everywhere surrounded the eyrie of a town.
She had risen, though languidly, and wandered slowly along the upper path of the terraced garden looking down on the lower path where it ran closer to the main bulk of the little wood by the sea.
All the terraced outline of the hills was pencilled distinctly against the bluest of blue skies, which hung like a tent over the shut-up valley.
Nothing was visible beyond it, save a long, bare, terraced range of hill, and the sky above all.
But earthly Eden boasts No terraced palaces, No rich pavilions bright with woven[113] gold.
Of Alexandria Volney says, "the spreading palm trees, the terraced houses which seem to have no roof, the lofty slender minarets, all announce to the traveller that he is in another world.
The house, of one corner of whose quaintly terraced garden we had taken possession, appeared to be untenanted.
One thing I remember that specially interested us in the terraced olive plantations of Miramar, was the method of throwing a little stone bridge from one walled terrace to another across the bed of the river.
There the ascent began at once, the path zigzagging about on the terraced slopes that were thickly planted with olives.
As soon as his noble figure and dignified face were seen on the azotA(C)a or terraced roof, beside the conqueror, the battle ceased.
The palace of Montezuma was so vast a pile, that one of the conquerors alleges itsterraced roof afforded ample room for thirty knights to tilt in tournament.
A thrush was warbling in the terraced garden, and from her window Maud could see old Chops the setter curled up in a warm corner asleep.
The Castle from its height looked down over the terraced gardens upon one end of the water.
The little Italian town that clung to the slopes that rose so steeply from the sea shone among its terraced gardens like a many-coloured jewel in the burning sunset.
Climbing by an ancient trail to the summit of the mesa of which the cliff is a side, you come upon the leveled ruins of what was once a magnificent, terraced community house, built of tufa blocks and containing hundreds of rooms.
Crowds of Americans, Mexicans and Indians (a sprinkling of Apaches among Pueblos of several sorts) line the terraced pyramids and make a scene so brilliant and strange that one wonders that it can be in America.
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