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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 132
Most of the heaps were about twenty 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 ...
Most of the heaps were about twenty 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 ...
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 ...
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| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua 561. number of Everyman's library Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Science Everyman's library. Travel and topography 561. number of Everyman's library: Science |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Contributor | Thomas Belt |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 7 jaan. 2010 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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