The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests. With Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living Forms |
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Begun on the Atlantic during my voyage home from Central America , the first half
relieved the tedium of a long and slow recovery from the effects of an accident
occurring on board ship . The middle of the manuscript found me traversing the ...
Begun on the Atlantic during my voyage home from Central America , the first half
relieved the tedium of a long and slow recovery from the effects of an accident
occurring on board ship . The middle of the manuscript found me traversing the ...
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solitary sleigh drive over frozen lakes in North America ; some in the great forests
of Central and South America ; some on the wide ocean , with the firmament
above and below blending together on the horizon ; and some , again , in the ...
solitary sleigh drive over frozen lakes in North America ; some in the great forests
of Central and South America ; some on the wide ocean , with the firmament
above and below blending together on the horizon ; and some , again , in the ...
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... Glacial Period in Central America - Evidence that the Ice extended to the
Tropics - Scarcity of Gold in the Valley Gravels - Difference of the Mollusca on the
East and West Coast of the Isthmus of Darien — The Refuge of the Tropical
American ...
... Glacial Period in Central America - Evidence that the Ice extended to the
Tropics - Scarcity of Gold in the Valley Gravels - Difference of the Mollusca on the
East and West Coast of the Isthmus of Darien — The Refuge of the Tropical
American ...
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... Indians of Western Central America all belonged to one Stock - Decadence of
Mexican Civilization before the arrival of ... Nahuatls ” proposed to include all the
Mexican , Western Central American , and Peruvian Races that had descended ...
... Indians of Western Central America all belonged to one Stock - Decadence of
Mexican Civilization before the arrival of ... Nahuatls ” proposed to include all the
Mexican , Western Central American , and Peruvian Races that had descended ...
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Ar noon on the 15th February , 1868 , the R . M . S . S . Solent , in which I was a
passenger , anchored off Greytown , or San Juan del Norte , the Atlantic port of
Nicaragua in Central America . We lay about a mile from the shore , and saw a
low ...
Ar noon on the 15th February , 1868 , the R . M . S . S . Solent , in which I was a
passenger , anchored off Greytown , or San Juan del Norte , the Atlantic port of
Nicaragua in Central America . We lay about a mile from the shore , and saw a
low ...
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| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests. With Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living Forms |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1874 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 aug. 2008 |
| Length | 403 pages |
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