Excerpt from Tangweera: Life and Adventures Among Gentle Savages The country known as the Mosquito Coast lies on the western Shores of the Caribbean Sea, between 11??? and 15??? north latitude. Almost the whole Of it is level alluvial land, fiat near the sea, but rising gradually, and becoming more and more hilly inland, with ranges of mountains at the back from 100 to 150 miles from the coast, which ranges come down to the sea at Monkey Point, near Greytown, and at the extreme north near Black River. The coast lies, as ...
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Excerpt from Tangweera: Life and Adventures Among Gentle Savages The country known as the Mosquito Coast lies on the western Shores of the Caribbean Sea, between 11??? and 15??? north latitude. Almost the whole Of it is level alluvial land, fiat near the sea, but rising gradually, and becoming more and more hilly inland, with ranges of mountains at the back from 100 to 150 miles from the coast, which ranges come down to the sea at Monkey Point, near Greytown, and at the extreme north near Black River. The coast lies, as sailors say, in the eye of the north-east trade winds - that is, in the latitudes where the trades are most constant. In the rainy season the back ranges receive the excessive rain, which flows down in innumerable rivers to the coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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