The Naturalist in NicaraguaJ. M. Dent & Sons, 1911 - 306 pages |
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Page 60
... hundred years ago , a wild variety may have arisen , less subject to the attacks of the ants than the cultivated variety ; for in many parts I saw them growing wild , and apparently not touched . The orange ( Citrus aurantium ) and the ...
... hundred years ago , a wild variety may have arisen , less subject to the attacks of the ants than the cultivated variety ; for in many parts I saw them growing wild , and apparently not touched . The orange ( Citrus aurantium ) and the ...
Page 70
... hundred yards a lode will thicken out from one to seventeen feet . Their auriferous contents vary still more than their width . The richest ore , worth from one to four ounces per ton , occurs in irregular patches and bands very small ...
... hundred yards a lode will thicken out from one to seventeen feet . Their auriferous contents vary still more than their width . The richest ore , worth from one to four ounces per ton , occurs in irregular patches and bands very small ...
Page 203
... hundred feet above the sea , 1 and to allow for the flotation of icebergs at the lower of the two places named , a channel of more than eighteen hundred feet in depth would have connected the two oceans . This supposition is negatived ...
... hundred feet above the sea , 1 and to allow for the flotation of icebergs at the lower of the two places named , a channel of more than eighteen hundred feet in depth would have connected the two oceans . This supposition is negatived ...
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