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Page 31
... feet above the lake , therefore at that point the highest elevation between the two oceans is only about 133 feet ; but even allowing that an error of a few feet may be discovered when a thorough survey is made across from sea to sea ...
... feet above the lake , therefore at that point the highest elevation between the two oceans is only about 133 feet ; but even allowing that an error of a few feet may be discovered when a thorough survey is made across from sea to sea ...
Page 128
... feet long and twenty broad . Several small trees had sprung up amongst the stones . Near the centre two holes had been dug down about four feet deep . Our guide told us that he and his brother had made them , to hide themselves in from ...
... feet long and twenty broad . Several small trees had sprung up amongst the stones . Near the centre two holes had been dug down about four feet deep . Our guide told us that he and his brother had made them , to hide themselves in from ...
Page 132
... feet in diameter , and composed of stones of the average size of a man's head ; but one , from the centre of which grew an immense cotton - wood tree , was made of about a dozen very large stones , some about five feet long , three ...
... feet in diameter , and composed of stones of the average size of a man's head ; but one , from the centre of which grew an immense cotton - wood tree , was made of about a dozen very large stones , some about five feet long , three ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
Commence journey up San Juan riverPalms and wild canes | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
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