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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 107 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 107 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 ,
some ...
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 ,
some ...
Page 203
The transported boulders , near Ocotal , are about three thousand feet above the
sea , those near Libertad about two thousand feet . The low pass between the
Atlantic and the Pacific oceans , through the valley of the San Juan and the Lake
of ...
The transported boulders , near Ocotal , are about three thousand feet above the
sea , those near Libertad about two thousand feet . The low pass between the
Atlantic and the Pacific oceans , through the valley of the San Juan and the Lake
of ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua 651. number of Everyman's Library 651. number of Everyman's library: Science |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent, 1911 |
| Original from | UC Southern Regional Library Facility |
| Digitized | 16 dets. 2014 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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