The Naturalist in NicaraguaThe Minerva Group, Inc., 2002 - 344 pages The best of all natural history journals which have ever been published.--Charles Darwin, 1874. Beautifully illustrated and a pleasure to read, this classic book describes the geography, geology, ecology, flora, fauna, and native inhabitants of Nicaragua in the nineteenth century. Many of Belt's detailed and accurate observations were not confirmed until decades later--for example, the fact that certain plants have standing armies of ants that defend them. |
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Page xi
... gold in Australia , and after much discussion he and his elder brother joined the stream of adventurers and sailed in 1852 for Victoria . In this rough " school of mines " he acquired that insight into the building - up of the earth's ...
... gold in Australia , and after much discussion he and his elder brother joined the stream of adventurers and sailed in 1852 for Victoria . In this rough " school of mines " he acquired that insight into the building - up of the earth's ...
Page xii
... gold mines in the province of Maranham . In whatever part of the world his work took him he turned for rest and relaxation to the branches of natural science for which the locality offered the greatest opportunity . In Nova Scotia he ...
... gold mines in the province of Maranham . In whatever part of the world his work took him he turned for rest and relaxation to the branches of natural science for which the locality offered the greatest opportunity . In Nova Scotia he ...
Page xxi
... gold veins grow poorer as they descend into the earth ; why whirlwinds rotate in opposite directions in the two hemi- spheres ; why the earthenware vessels of the Indians are rounded at the bottom and require to be placed in a little ...
... gold veins grow poorer as they descend into the earth ; why whirlwinds rotate in opposite directions in the two hemi- spheres ; why the earthenware vessels of the Indians are rounded at the bottom and require to be placed in a little ...
Page xxiii
... GOLD MINES OF CHONTALES ; JOURNEYS IN THE SAVANNAHS AND FORESTS ; With Observations of Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living Forms . BY THOMAS BELT , F.G.S. AUTHOR OF MINERAL VEINS , " 99 66 THE GLACIAL ...
... GOLD MINES OF CHONTALES ; JOURNEYS IN THE SAVANNAHS AND FORESTS ; With Observations of Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living Forms . BY THOMAS BELT , F.G.S. AUTHOR OF MINERAL VEINS , " 99 66 THE GLACIAL ...
Page xxx
... Gold- Mining Company - My house and garden - Fruits - Plantains and bananas ; probably not indigenous to America ... Gold - mining - Auriferous quartz veins - Mode of occur rence of the gold - Lodes richer next the surface than at lower ...
... Gold- Mining Company - My house and garden - Fruits - Plantains and bananas ; probably not indigenous to America ... Gold - mining - Auriferous quartz veins - Mode of occur rence of the gold - Lodes richer next the surface than at lower ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
CHAPTER II | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
CHAPTER IV | 37 |
CHAPTER V | 50 |
CHAPTER VI | 68 |
CHAPTER VII | 81 |
CHAPTER VIII | 98 |
CHAPTER XII | 165 |
CHAPTER XIII | 179 |
CHAPTER XIV | 191 |
CHAPTER XV | 211 |
CHAPTER XVI | 224 |
CHAPTER XVII | 236 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 250 |
CHAPTER XIX | 258 |
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