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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... wind - Initial form of a Cyclone - The origin of Cyclones CHAPTER XVII . Cattle - raising - Don Filiberto Trano's new House - Horse - flies and Wasps - Teustepe - Spider imitating Ants - Mimetic Species- Animals with special means of ...
... wind - Initial form of a Cyclone - The origin of Cyclones CHAPTER XVII . Cattle - raising - Don Filiberto Trano's new House - Horse - flies and Wasps - Teustepe - Spider imitating Ants - Mimetic Species- Animals with special means of ...
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... wind and tide , so that he might easily have reached the San Juan . Inside the bar we were in smooth water , for but a small stream is discharged by this channel . On our right was a sandy beach , on our left great beds of grass growing ...
... wind and tide , so that he might easily have reached the San Juan . Inside the bar we were in smooth water , for but a small stream is discharged by this channel . On our right was a sandy beach , on our left great beds of grass growing ...
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... winds that blow pretty constantly find their way to every part , and carry off the emanations from the soil . As a similar in- stance I may mention the city of Pernambuco , on the eastern coast of Brazil , containing 80,000 inhabitants ...
... winds that blow pretty constantly find their way to every part , and carry off the emanations from the soil . As a similar in- stance I may mention the city of Pernambuco , on the eastern coast of Brazil , containing 80,000 inhabitants ...
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... winds blow with much regularity , and there are no hills nor hollows to interfere with the movements of the air , so that miasmatic ex- halations cannot accumulate . Surrounding the cleared portions around Greytown is a scrubby bush ...
... winds blow with much regularity , and there are no hills nor hollows to interfere with the movements of the air , so that miasmatic ex- halations cannot accumulate . Surrounding the cleared portions around Greytown is a scrubby bush ...
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... wind failed us again , and the sun right overhead , in a clear piti- less sky , scorched us with its rays , while our boat lay like a log upon the water , the pitch melting in the seams with the heat . The surface of the lake was ...
... wind failed us again , and the sun right overhead , in a clear piti- less sky , scorched us with its rays , while our boat lay like a log upon the water , the pitch melting in the seams with the heat . The surface of the lake was ...
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