Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and YucatanHarper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... mile came to the brink of a precipice , more than a hundred feet high , at the foot of which , and a short distance be- yond , was the Lake of Masaya . The descent was al- most perpendicular , in one place by a rough ladder , and then ...
... mile came to the brink of a precipice , more than a hundred feet high , at the foot of which , and a short distance be- yond , was the Lake of Masaya . The descent was al- most perpendicular , in one place by a rough ladder , and then ...
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... mile and a half in circumference , five or six hundred feet deep , with sides slightly sloping , and so regular in its propor- tions that it seemed an artificial excavation . The bot- tom was level , both sides and bottom covered with ...
... mile and a half in circumference , five or six hundred feet deep , with sides slightly sloping , and so regular in its propor- tions that it seemed an artificial excavation . The bot- tom was level , both sides and bottom covered with ...
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... miles in length . Begin- ing at the Lake of Nicaragua , for twenty - four miles the water is from one to three fathoms in depth . Above this there are rapids , and , at the distance of four and a half miles a fall of thirteen feet . The ...
... miles in length . Begin- ing at the Lake of Nicaragua , for twenty - four miles the water is from one to three fathoms in depth . Above this there are rapids , and , at the distance of four and a half miles a fall of thirteen feet . The ...
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... miles off ; and at Kingston , Jamaica , eight hundred miles distant , was supposed to be signal guns of distress from some vessel at sea . The face of nature was changed ; the cone of the volcano was gone ; a mountain and field of lava ...
... miles off ; and at Kingston , Jamaica , eight hundred miles distant , was supposed to be signal guns of distress from some vessel at sea . The face of nature was changed ; the cone of the volcano was gone ; a mountain and field of lava ...
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... miles along the shores of the Pacific , producing tobac co , the best indigo and richest balsam in the world . We had mountains and rivers , valleys and immense ra- vines , and the three great volcanoes of San Miguel , San Vicente , and ...
... miles along the shores of the Pacific , producing tobac co , the best indigo and richest balsam in the world . We had mountains and rivers , valleys and immense ra- vines , and the three great volcanoes of San Miguel , San Vicente , and ...
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