The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of Chontales; Journeys in the Savannahs and Forests; with Observations on Animals and Plants in Reference to the Theory of Evolution of Living FormsE. Bumpus, 1888 - 403 pages |
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Page 51
... season had set in , and these places were rapidly drying up ; but in many it had just reached that stage when the mud was most tenacious ; at one very bad crossing , called an " estero , ” my mule fell , with my leg underneath him ...
... season had set in , and these places were rapidly drying up ; but in many it had just reached that stage when the mud was most tenacious ; at one very bad crossing , called an " estero , ” my mule fell , with my leg underneath him ...
Page 58
... crossed yesterday , where the ground is parched up in the dry season , the Atlantic forest , bathed in the rains distilled from the north - east trades , is ever verdant . Perennial 58 [ Ch . IV . THE NATURALIST IN NICARAGUA .
... crossed yesterday , where the ground is parched up in the dry season , the Atlantic forest , bathed in the rains distilled from the north - east trades , is ever verdant . Perennial 58 [ Ch . IV . THE NATURALIST IN NICARAGUA .
Page 86
... season . The rocks of the district are dolerytes , with bands and protrusions of hard greenstones . The decomposition of the dolerytes is very great , and extends from the tops of the hills to a depth ( as proved in the mines ) , of at ...
... season . The rocks of the district are dolerytes , with bands and protrusions of hard greenstones . The decomposition of the dolerytes is very great , and extends from the tops of the hills to a depth ( as proved in the mines ) , of at ...
Page 90
... season water percolates freely from the surface down through the lodes , and the gold set free by the decomposition of the ore at the surface must be carried down into it , so that in the course of ages , during the gradual degradation ...
... season water percolates freely from the surface down through the lodes , and the gold set free by the decomposition of the ore at the surface must be carried down into it , so that in the course of ages , during the gradual degradation ...
Page 95
... temporarily closed by them in the wet season . Mr. David Forbes , * in his account of the geology of * Quart . Journ . Geol . Soc . , vol . xvii . Peru and Bolivia , has advanced the opinion that auri- Ch . VI . ] 95 QUARTZ LODES .
... temporarily closed by them in the wet season . Mr. David Forbes , * in his account of the geology of * Quart . Journ . Geol . Soc . , vol . xvii . Peru and Bolivia , has advanced the opinion that auri- Ch . VI . ] 95 QUARTZ LODES .
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