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Page 60
... found growing really wild in Central America : and I have sometimes thought
that even in the short time since the lime was first introduced , about three
hundred years ago , a wild variety may have arisen , less subject to the attacks of
the ants ...
... found growing really wild in Central America : and I have sometimes thought
that even in the short time since the lime was first introduced , about three
hundred years ago , a wild variety may have arisen , less subject to the attacks of
the ants ...
Page 254
According to Mr . Lovell Reeve , who has specially studied this question , out of
many hundreds of land mollusks ... Out of five hundred and sixty species of Helix
inhabiting the Caucasian province , there are but twenty - four in Britain .
According to Mr . Lovell Reeve , who has specially studied this question , out of
many hundreds of land mollusks ... Out of five hundred and sixty species of Helix
inhabiting the Caucasian province , there are but twenty - four in Britain .
Page 267
The vast quantity of material thrown out by this explosion may be gathered from
the fact that , one hundred and twenty miles away , near the volcano of San
Miguel , the dust was so thick that it was quite dark from four o ' clock in the
evening ...
The vast quantity of material thrown out by this explosion may be gathered from
the fact that , one hundred and twenty miles away , near the volcano of San
Miguel , the dust was so thick that it was quite dark from four o ' clock in the
evening ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua 561. number of Everyman's library 561. number of Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Thys. Travel & topography 561. number of Everyman's library: Travel and topography |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent, 1928 |
| Original from | University of Texas |
| Digitized | 6 veeb. 2008 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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