. A year of Costa Rican natural history. A Street in Cartago, looking toward Corner of the Park, Cartago. To face p. .? ? THE TOWN OF CART AGO AND ITS LIFE 33 cartroads leading to the neighboring villages of DulceNombre, Concepcion de Cartago, Agua Caliente, San Isi-dro del Tejar, Tobosi and the more distant villages of Pa-raiso and Orosi. Others were lanes cut off by fences after adistance of half a mile or so, and some of these lanes formedour richest collecting fields about Cartago. The town was much spread out, especially along the maineast-west street, the Calle Real, and containe
. A year of Costa Rican natural history. A Street in Cartago, looking toward Corner of the Park, Cartago. To face p. .? ? THE TOWN OF CART AGO AND ITS LIFE 33 cartroads leading to the neighboring villages of DulceNombre, Concepcion de Cartago, Agua Caliente, San Isi-dro del Tejar, Tobosi and the more distant villages of Pa-raiso and Orosi. Others were lanes cut off by fences after adistance of half a mile or so, and some of these lanes formedour richest collecting fields about Cartago. The town was much spread out, especially along the maineast-west street, the Calle Real, and contained six to seventhousand inhabitants. The streets were unusually wide fora Spanish town and there were scarcely any two-storiedbuildings because of the frequent earthquakes. The houseswere of plastered adobe and were often tinted but not usuallyof a bright color. Our hotel was pale green, the stores acrossthe street a salmon yellow. The roofs were of curved redtiles, the eaves projecting some two feet beyond the walls,and the sidewalks we
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