. Notes on Central America : particularly the states of Honduras and San Salvador : their geography, topography, climate, population, resources, productions, etc., etc., and the proposed Honduras inter-oceanic railway . and excellence of their cattle. Therivers on this slope of the continent abound in gold-washings, and may perhaps furnish, when the countrybecomes better known, a supply of gold scarcely lessthan that which has been obtained from , most of the wide region between theMountains of Sulaco and the Atlantic, embracing near-ly half of the whole territory of th
. Notes on Central America : particularly the states of Honduras and San Salvador : their geography, topography, climate, population, resources, productions, etc., etc., and the proposed Honduras inter-oceanic railway . and excellence of their cattle. Therivers on this slope of the continent abound in gold-washings, and may perhaps furnish, when the countrybecomes better known, a supply of gold scarcely lessthan that which has been obtained from , most of the wide region between theMountains of Sulaco and the Atlantic, embracing near-ly half of the whole territory of the state, is uninhab-ited except by detached Indian tribes. But little isknown of the country, except that it is very diversified,and rich in the nature of its soil and the variety of itsminerals. The northern coast of Honduras presents a diversi-fied surface. A portion is flat, and covered with vast rprliral Section [refill Puerto Caballos ria Puin of C()mayagua h) tiie Bay of Fonseca fiorizniital Scale I Yerhrai S6* Milej to au- tirkj aWOJrcHT) crtletile InrK. Vfrfical Spcfiou ll•omSA^frA Ro8a Honduras, .Soiillimid to UiePAcirc Ocean. Homoak-l Scale, I Vertu-al Scale lOlHes toflieiidi. j 2400Acl to Yertical Serhoit Lion of Nicaragua,ti. Llanos nt Saota Rosa Honduras . lionzoiital Scale 1 Vertical Scale10 llilES -to flu- IidLJ 24()0feeHj*i: Bui Seciioii ^ c Ocean. Vertiral Scale,2400Jeel:toiiieEicli.
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