. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 132 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. back into the estuaries and gradually formed bars across their' mouths, choking up their outlets, and thus turned them into brackish water bodies. Their end it is easy to foretell : they will gradually become smaller and shallower, and at no distant day will be great marshes, each with a sluggish stream winding through it, and still later low flat vat^ Fig. 69. On the coast between Rio de Janeiro and Cape Frio are several lakes shut in by the coast sands that
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 132 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. back into the estuaries and gradually formed bars across their' mouths, choking up their outlets, and thus turned them into brackish water bodies. Their end it is easy to foretell : they will gradually become smaller and shallower, and at no distant day will be great marshes, each with a sluggish stream winding through it, and still later low flat vat^ Fig. 69. On the coast between Rio de Janeiro and Cape Frio are several lakes shut in by the coast sands that have been thrown across the mouths of valleys opening toward the sea. The country immediately north of these lakes is a mountainous one, the land rising to elevations of from one thousand to fifteen hundred metres in a distance of thirty or forty kilo- metres. Between some of the lakes low headlands come down to the beacli. Lagoa Marica, for example, has such headlands at both its. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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