The States of Central America: Their Geography, Topography, Climate, Population, Resources, Productions, Commerce, Political Organization, Aborigines, Etc., Etc., Comprising Chapters on Honduras, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, the Bay Islands, the Mosquito Shore, and the Honduras Inter-oceanic RailwayHarper & brothers, 1858 - 782 pàgines |
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Pàgina xi
... entire insufficiency and inaccuracy of all the publish- ed maps of that country . Not only were important places wrongly located , but topographical features , chains of mountains , and large rivers were laid down where none existed ...
... entire insufficiency and inaccuracy of all the publish- ed maps of that country . Not only were important places wrongly located , but topographical features , chains of mountains , and large rivers were laid down where none existed ...
Pàgina 18
... entire year ; vegetation is rank , and the climate is damp and proportionally insalubrious . The trade winds blow from the northeast ; and the moisture with which they are saturated , condensed on the 18 [ CHAP . I. CENTRAL AMERICA IN ...
... entire year ; vegetation is rank , and the climate is damp and proportionally insalubrious . The trade winds blow from the northeast ; and the moisture with which they are saturated , condensed on the 18 [ CHAP . I. CENTRAL AMERICA IN ...
Pàgina 27
... entire Atlantic coast of Central America , from Truxillo southward , embracing the whole of what is called the Mosquito shore , is subject to the same re- mark . Hence this coast has scarcely any inhabitants , except a few squalid ...
... entire Atlantic coast of Central America , from Truxillo southward , embracing the whole of what is called the Mosquito shore , is subject to the same re- mark . Hence this coast has scarcely any inhabitants , except a few squalid ...
Pàgina 28
... entire day of rain , although there are occasionally me- teoric combinations which produce what the Spaniards call Temporales , or rains of several days ' continuance . During a residence of three rainy seasons in Central America , I ...
... entire day of rain , although there are occasionally me- teoric combinations which produce what the Spaniards call Temporales , or rains of several days ' continuance . During a residence of three rainy seasons in Central America , I ...
Pàgina 40
... entire eastern coast of Guatemala and Yucatan , and probably not far dif- ferent from that of the islands off the same coast in the Bay of Honduras . Observations made here , under the authority of the governor , for the year 1848 ...
... entire eastern coast of Guatemala and Yucatan , and probably not far dif- ferent from that of the islands off the same coast in the Bay of Honduras . Observations made here , under the authority of the governor , for the year 1848 ...
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The States of Central America: Their Geography, Topography, Climate ... Ephraim George Squier Visualització completa - 1858 |
The States of Central America: Their Geography, Topography, Climate ... Ephraim George Squier Visualització completa - 1858 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
aboriginal abundant Amapala Atlantic average Bay of Fonseca Bay of Honduras beautiful Belize British called canal Cape Gracias Caribs Cartago Central America chiefly Choluteca climate coast Colonel Childs Comayagua commence considerable continent Cordilleras Costa Rica distance district elevated established exported Fahr feet fertile flows forests Goascoran gold Guanaja Guatemala Gulf Gulf of Fonseca harbor hills Humuya hundred Indians inhabitants interior island Lacandones Lagoon lake Lake Nicaragua leagues Lempa less mahogany Mexico miles mines Mosquito Shore mountains mouth Nacaome Nahuatl nearly Nicaragua ocean Olancho Omoa Pacific Peten plain of Comayagua population port principal Puerto Punta rain river road Roatan San José San Juan San Salvador savannas season Segovia Sensenti silver slopes soil Spain Spaniards Spanish stone streams summit Tegucigalpa tion town trees Truxillo Ulua valley vessels volcano winds wood Yucatan
Passatges populars
Pàgina 758 - The present additional article shall have the same force and validity as if it were inserted, word for word, in the Treaty signed this day. it shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at the same time. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto their seals.
Pàgina 198 - ... hour of midnight, makes it wear more the appearance of some theatrical exhibition than what it really is, the pursuit of industry which has fallen to the lot of the Honduras woodcutter. " About the end of May the periodical rains again commence. The torrents of water discharged from the clouds are so great as to render the roads impassable in the course of a few hours, when all tracking ceases ; the cattle are turned into the pasture, and the trucks, gear, and tools, &c., are housed.
Pàgina 466 - They shall not be disturbed, molested, or annoyed in any manner on account of their religious belief, nor in the proper exercise of their religion...
Pàgina 614 - Let us now refer to the last treaty of peace, of which the 17th article is as follows : " His Britannic Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifications which his subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras, and other places of the territory of Spain, in that part of the world, within four months after the ratification of the treaty,
Pàgina 576 - ... or logwood; and several English settlements having been formed and extended, under that pretence, upon the Spanish continent, it is expressly agreed that his Britannic Majesty's subjects shall have the right of cutting...
Pàgina 743 - I fell into one of them by mere accident last Monday, where I found Admiral Dilly and Colonel Morgan retailing my advice...
Pàgina 292 - Ana, in the State of San Salvador, are some rich mines of iron, which produce a purer and more malleable metal than any imported from Europe : the ore is close to the surface, and very abundant, and there are extensive forests in the immediate vicinity, which serve for making charcoal.
Pàgina 226 - In this place the women are kept during their confine^ ment, and, after a few days, they are again able to attend to their multifarious duties. On our entrance, the women were busily occupied, some pounding cassada and Indian corn together, boiling it, and making it into a beverage called oulung ; some preparing cassada for bread in the morning ; others making tournous ; others, again...
Pàgina 27 - ... uniform. It is modified somewhat by the shape and position of the shore, and by the proximity of the mountains, as well as by the prevailing winds. The heat on the...
Pàgina 198 - Each gang then separates its own cutting by the mark on the ends of the logs, and forms them into large rafts ; in which state they are brought down to the wharves of the proprietors, where they are taken out of the water, and undergo a second process of the axe, to make the surface smooth. The ends, which frequently get split and rent by the force of the current, are also sawed off, when they are ready for shipping.