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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... Names to the Rivers—Caribs barter Guns and Iron-pots for Dogs—The
Hairless Dogs of Tropical America— Difference between Artificial and Natural
Selection—The cause of Sterility between Allied Species considered—The
disadvantages ...
... Names to the Rivers—Caribs barter Guns and Iron-pots for Dogs—The
Hairless Dogs of Tropical America— Difference between Artificial and Natural
Selection—The cause of Sterility between Allied Species considered—The
disadvantages ...
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Perfectly level, surrounded by Swamps, and without any system of drainage,
either natural or artificial, excepting such as the sandy soil affords, Greytown
might be thought a very unhealthy site for a town. Notwithstanding, however, its
apparent ...
Perfectly level, surrounded by Swamps, and without any system of drainage,
either natural or artificial, excepting such as the sandy soil affords, Greytown
might be thought a very unhealthy site for a town. Notwithstanding, however, its
apparent ...
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ranges and with a good natural drainage is much more unhealthy, fevers being
very prevalent. As at Greytown so at Pernambuco, the trade winds blow with
much regularity, and there are no hills nor hollows to interfere with the
movements of ...
ranges and with a good natural drainage is much more unhealthy, fevers being
very prevalent. As at Greytown so at Pernambuco, the trade winds blow with
much regularity, and there are no hills nor hollows to interfere with the
movements of ...
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These deceptive resemblances are supposed, by the advocates of the origin of
species by natural selection, to have been brought about by varieties of one
species, that somewhat resembled another having special means of protection,
being ...
These deceptive resemblances are supposed, by the advocates of the origin of
species by natural selection, to have been brought about by varieties of one
species, that somewhat resembled another having special means of protection,
being ...
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They widened this natural bridge to three times its width by a number of ants
clinging to it and to each other on each side, over which the column passed three
or four deep; whereas excepting for this expedient they would have had to pass ...
They widened this natural bridge to three times its width by a number of ants
clinging to it and to each other on each side, over which the column passed three
or four deep; whereas excepting for this expedient they would have had to pass ...
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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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