Notes on Central America1855 |
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abundant Alvarado Atlantic average Bay of Fonseca Bay of Honduras beautiful Belize British called Cape Gracias Caribs Central America Chamelicon Choluteca climate coast Comayagua considerable constitute continent Cordilleras Costa Rica Cuscatlan Department of Gracias distance district duras elevation exist favorable feet flows Goascoran gold Guanaja Guatemala Gulf Gulf of Fonseca harbor hills Humuya hundred Indians inhabitants interior island Isthmus Jamaica Juarros labor Lagoon Lake leagues Lempa less mahogany main land Mexico miles mines months Mosquito Shore mountains mouth Nacaome Nahuals navigation nearly Nicaragua northern Olancho Omoa Pacific Panama Patuca plain of Comayagua population port portion principal proposed road Puerto Caballos rain respect river Roatan Sambos San Juan San Salvador savannas Segovia Sensenti silver soil Sonsonate Spaniards Spanish streams summit Tegucigalpa Tehuantepec thousand tion town trees Truxillo Ulua valley vessels volcano winds wood Xicaques
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Page 265 - In granting, however, their joint protection to any such canals or railways as are by this article specified, it is always understood by the United States and Great Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same, shall impose no other charges or conditions of traffic thereupon than the aforesaid governments shall approve of as just and equitable...
Page 265 - ... any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the interoceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
Page 368 - ... occupy, or fortify or colonize, or assume, or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Page 265 - The Governments of the United States and Great Britain having not only desired in entering into this Convention, to accomplish a particular object, but, also, to establish a general principle...
Page 178 - Nothing can present a more extraordinary appearance than this process of trucking, or drawing down the mahogany to the river. The six trucks will occupy an extent of road of a quarter of a mile. The great number of oxen, the drivers half naked (clothes being inconvenient from the heat of the weather and clouds of dust), and each bearing a...
Page 308 - 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.
Page 178 - ... 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 trucking ceases — the cattle are turned into the pasture — and the trucks, gear, tools, &c., are housed.
Page 178 - 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.
Page 178 - The logs then float down a distance of 200 miles, being followed by the gangs in pitpans (a kind of flat-bottomed canoe) to disengage them from the branches of the overhanging trees, until they are stopped by a boom placed in some situation convenient to the mouth of the river. " Each gang then separates its own cutting by the...
Page 321 - Finally, at ten minutes to eleven, without premonition of any kind, the earth began to heave and tremble with such fearful force that in ten seconds the entire city was prostrated. The crashing of houses and churches stunned the ears of the terrified inhabitants, while a cloud of dust from the falling ruins enveloped them in a pall of impenetrable darkness. Not a drop of water could be got to relieve the half-choked and suffocating people, for the wells and fountains were filled up or made dry.