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 FormsJ. Murray, 1874 - 403 pages |
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... GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA , ' ETC. , ETC. " It was his faith , -perhaps is mine , - That life in all its forms is one , And that its secret conduits run Unseen , but in unbroken line , From the great fountain - head divine ...
... GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA , ' ETC. , ETC. " It was his faith , -perhaps is mine , - That life in all its forms is one , And that its secret conduits run Unseen , but in unbroken line , From the great fountain - head divine ...
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... Glacial Drift- The 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 ...
... Glacial Drift- The 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 ...
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... Glacial drift - The glacial period in Cen- > tral America - Evidence that the ice extended to the tropics- Scarcity of gold in the valley gravels - Difference of the mol- lusca on the east and west coast of the Isthmus of Darien - The ...
... Glacial drift - The glacial period in Cen- > tral America - Evidence that the ice extended to the tropics- Scarcity of gold in the valley gravels - Difference of the mol- lusca on the east and west coast of the Isthmus of Darien - The ...
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... ice ; but I was at the time unprepared to believe that the glacial period could have left such memorials of its existence within the tropics , at not greater elevations above the sea than 3,000 feet . Riding on without stopping , we ...
... ice ; but I was at the time unprepared to believe that the glacial period could have left such memorials of its existence within the tropics , at not greater elevations above the sea than 3,000 feet . Riding on without stopping , we ...
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... glaciers in Central America during the glacial period , and these once admitted afforded me a solution of many phe- nomena that had before been inexplicable . The immense ridges of boulder clay between San Rafael and Yales , the long ...
... glaciers in Central America during the glacial period , and these once admitted afforded me a solution of many phe- nomena that had before been inexplicable . The immense ridges of boulder clay between San Rafael and Yales , the long ...
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