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Page 31
The mean level of the waters of the lake , according to the survey of Colonel O .
W . Childs , in 1851 , is 1071 feet , so that the river falls on an average a little less
than one foot per mile . The height of the lowest pass between the lake and the ...
The mean level of the waters of the lake , according to the survey of Colonel O .
W . Childs , in 1851 , is 1071 feet , so that the river falls on an average a little less
than one foot per mile . The height of the lowest pass between the lake and the ...
Page 191
The range was very steep , and fully 1200 feet high , composed entirely of
boulder clay . This clay was of a brown colour , and full of angular and
subangular blocks of stone of all sizes up to nine feet in diameter . The hill on the
slope that we ...
The range was very steep , and fully 1200 feet high , composed entirely of
boulder clay . This clay was of a brown colour , and full of angular and
subangular blocks of stone of all sizes up to nine feet in diameter . The hill on the
slope that we ...
Page 200
These beds deepen as the river is descended , until at Ocotal they reach a
thickness of between two and three hundred feet , and the undulating plain on
which Ocotal is built is seen in sections near the river to be composed entirely of
them .
These beds deepen as the river is descended , until at Ocotal they reach a
thickness of between two and three hundred feet , and the undulating plain on
which Ocotal is built is seen in sections near the river to be composed entirely of
them .
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