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 Forms |
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Begun on the Atlantic during my voyage home from Central America, the first half
relieved the tedium of a long and slow recovery from the effects of an accident
occurring on board ship. The middle of the manuscript found me traversing the ...
Begun on the Atlantic during my voyage home from Central America, the first half
relieved the tedium of a long and slow recovery from the effects of an accident
occurring on board ship. The middle of the manuscript found me traversing the ...
Page vi
solitary sleigh drive over frozen lakes in North America; some in the great forests
of Central and South America; some on the wide ocean, with the firmament
above and below blending together on the horizon; and some, again, in the
bowels of ...
solitary sleigh drive over frozen lakes in North America; some in the great forests
of Central and South America; some on the wide ocean, with the firmament
above and below blending together on the horizon; and some, again, in the
bowels of ...
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... Iron-pots for Dogs—The Hairless Dogs of Tropical America— Difference
between Artificial and Natural Selection—The ... of Depilto—Silver Mine—
Geology of the Walley—Glacial Drift— The Glacial Period in Central America—
Evidence that ...
... Iron-pots for Dogs—The Hairless Dogs of Tropical America— Difference
between Artificial and Natural Selection—The ... of Depilto—Silver Mine—
Geology of the Walley—Glacial Drift— The Glacial Period in Central America—
Evidence that ...
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... Spaniards—The Indians of Western Central America all belonged to one Stock
—Decadence of Mexican Civilization ... arrival of the Spaniards—The
designation “Nahuatls '' proposed to include all the Mexican, Western Central
American, ...
... Spaniards—The Indians of Western Central America all belonged to one Stock
—Decadence of Mexican Civilization ... arrival of the Spaniards—The
designation “Nahuatls '' proposed to include all the Mexican, Western Central
American, ...
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AT noon on the 15th February, 1868, the R.M.S.S. Solent, in which I was a
passenger, anchored off Greytown, or San Juan del Norte, the Atlantic port of
Nicaragua in Central America. We lay about a mile from the shore, and saw a low
flat ...
AT noon on the 15th February, 1868, the R.M.S.S. Solent, in which I was a
passenger, anchored off Greytown, or San Juan del Norte, the Atlantic port of
Nicaragua in Central America. We lay about a mile from the shore, and saw a low
flat ...
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| Title | 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 Forms |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1874 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 okt. 2017 |
| Length | 403 pages |
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