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 vii
... Port Cortez ........... To face Title . To face page 75 66 66 66 4. Map of Bay of Fonseca ........ 5. Map of Honduras and San Salvador 66 At end of book . LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES . 1. View of Plain of Comayagua ... To face page 65 66 66 2 ...
... Port Cortez ........... To face Title . To face page 75 66 66 66 4. Map of Bay of Fonseca ........ 5. Map of Honduras and San Salvador 66 At end of book . LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES . 1. View of Plain of Comayagua ... To face page 65 66 66 2 ...
Pàgina viii
... Port of Realejo 30. Nicaraguan Dwelling .. 31. Cathedral of Leon 32. Barranca de las Lavadoras ... 33. Bridge of Guadelupe ......... 34. City of Granada ........ 35. Plain of Leon 36. Lake of Masaya . 37. Volcano of Masaya ... 38 ...
... Port of Realejo 30. Nicaraguan Dwelling .. 31. Cathedral of Leon 32. Barranca de las Lavadoras ... 33. Bridge of Guadelupe ......... 34. City of Granada ........ 35. Plain of Leon 36. Lake of Masaya . 37. Volcano of Masaya ... 38 ...
Pàgina ix
... port of La Union , my attention was arrested by the circumstance that portions of this bay were swept by strong winds from the north , leading me to infer that there must exist an interruption in the great mountain chain of the ...
... port of La Union , my attention was arrested by the circumstance that portions of this bay were swept by strong winds from the north , leading me to infer that there must exist an interruption in the great mountain chain of the ...
Pàgina 20
... port ) , San Lorenzo , and La Paz ; San Salvador has La Union , also in the Bay of Fonseca , Jiquilisco or Espiritu Santo , Jaltepec or Concordia , La Libertad , and Aca- jutla or Sonsonate . The last two can hardly be called ports ...
... port ) , San Lorenzo , and La Paz ; San Salvador has La Union , also in the Bay of Fonseca , Jiquilisco or Espiritu Santo , Jaltepec or Concordia , La Libertad , and Aca- jutla or Sonsonate . The last two can hardly be called ports ...
Pàgina 29
... during the wet season the rains are comparatively long and heavy . Continuous rains , or Temporales , are unknown . There is another circumstance , not often considered , which CHAP . II . ] 29 OBSERVATIONS ON CLIMATE . Port of Realejo.
... during the wet season the rains are comparatively long and heavy . Continuous rains , or Temporales , are unknown . There is another circumstance , not often considered , which CHAP . II . ] 29 OBSERVATIONS ON CLIMATE . Port of Realejo.
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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 |
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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.