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CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE Arrival at Greytown - The river San Juan -Silting
up of the harbour - Crossing the bar — Lives lost on it - Sharks — Christopher
Columbus Appearance of the town Trade Healthiness of the town and its
probable ...
CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE Arrival at Greytown - The river San Juan -Silting
up of the harbour - Crossing the bar — Lives lost on it - Sharks — Christopher
Columbus Appearance of the town Trade Healthiness of the town and its
probable ...
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Names of Rivers 159 ground was now firmer , and we got more rapidly across it .
... which extended around for several miles , we reached the cattle hacienda of
Olama , where was a large tile - roofed house , near a river of the same name .
Names of Rivers 159 ground was now firmer , and we got more rapidly across it .
... which extended around for several miles , we reached the cattle hacienda of
Olama , where was a large tile - roofed house , near a river of the same name .
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On the banks of the river , from about a mile below Depilto , unstratified beds of
gravel are exposed in numerous natural sections . These beds deepen as the
river is descended , until at Ocotal they reach a thickness of between two and
three ...
On the banks of the river , from about a mile below Depilto , unstratified beds of
gravel are exposed in numerous natural sections . These beds deepen as the
river is descended , until at Ocotal they reach a thickness of between two and
three ...
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| 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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