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La Viga is from six to twelve feet deep, and about thirty feet wide.
Six Months in Mexico 1888
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The Viga is one of the most beautiful promenades imaginable, though it might easily be rendered still more so; but even as it is, with its fine shady trees and canal, along which the lazy canoes are constantly gliding, it would be difficult, on a fine evening, just before sunset, especially on the evening of a fête-day, to find anywhere a prettier or more characteristic scene.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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a village of straw mansions, we found they were celebrating an annual feast-day, and that the town was not only crowded with guests, but La Viga was almost impassable for boats.
Six Months in Mexico 1888
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It is located in barrio Viga, just 15 kilometers away from the town proper.
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Indeed, its name comes from the beam (Viga) which swings across the canal at the place where the canoes pay toll.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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The inheritance of luck may perhaps be another survival; a notable instance occurs in _Viga-Glums Saga_, where the warrior Vigfus bequeaths his luck to his favourite grandson, Glum.
The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 L. Winifred Faraday
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Viga-Styr, who had married Thorbjorg the daughter of Olaf Peacock, the son of Hoskuld, called Thorbjorg the Fat.
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Fortællingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis; og, Sankt Halvards liv, død og jærtegn.
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Viga Canal and watch the life of the people ebb and flow along its tree-lined stretches -- the queer old flat-bottomed and square-ended boats coming in on work days with vegetables and flowers from the so-called "floating gardens," and on days of _fiesta_ transformed into pleasure craft with gay streamers and flags.
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895
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The sun was just peeping over the hilltops when we took a car marked "La Viga," and off we went.
Six Months in Mexico 1888
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