 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 pages
...fine plantations of cotton. This plain was at the most not over two thousand six hundred feet above the level of the sea. In the middle of a tract of ground in which porphyry, with a base of griinstein predominated, basaltic cones appeared, the summits of which were crowned with evergreen... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Industries - 1811 - 666 pages
...Picachos del Morlero, the Cerros de las Cuevas, y de Cuic/ie, is only from 2,460 to 2,624 feet above the level of the sea. In the middle of a tract of ground in which porphyry with a base ofgriinstein predominates, basaltic cones appear, the summits of which are crowned with evergreen... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Industries - 1811 - 546 pages
...the Picachos del Mortero, the Gems' de lag Cuevas, y de Cuicke, is only from 750 to 800 metVesJ above the level of the sea. In the middle of a tract of ground in * 1695 feet. Trans. •f. Sioria antita di Messico, vol. ip 42. and RusiicePio Mex* icona, (the poem... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Mexico - 1814 - 538 pages
...de las Cuevas, y de Cuiche, * 1695 feet. Trans. ofValladolid. is only from 750 to 800 metres* above the level of the sea. In the middle of a tract of ground in which porphyry with a base of griiristein predominates, basaltic cones appear, the summits of which are crowned with ever-green... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander freiherr von Humboldt - 1824 - 364 pages
...Picachos del Mortero, the Cerros de las Cuevas, y de Cuiche, is only from 2,460 to 2,624 feet above the level of the sea. In the middle of a tract of ground in which porphyry with a base oigrunstein predominates, basalticcones appear, the summits of which are crowned with evergreen... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Mexico - 1824 - 364 pages
...Picachos del Mortero, the Cerros de las Cuevas, y de Cuiche, is only from 2,460 to 2,624 feet above the level of the sea. In the middle of a tract of ground in which porphyry with a base <& grunstein predominates, basal tic cones appear, the summits of which are crowned with evergreen... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1824 - 458 pages
...plain which •was laid waste by volcanic fire. Till the middle of the 18th century, fields cultivated with sugarcane and indigo occupied the extent of ground between the two brooks Cuitamba and San Pedro. These fields, watered by artificial means, belonged to one of the greatest... | |
 | Science - 1826 - 412 pages
...de Cniche, is only from 750 to 800 metres (from 2460 to 2624 feet) above the level of the sea. Ii< the middle of a tract of ground in which porphyry, with a base of greenstone predominates, basaltic cones appear, the summits of which are crowned with evergreen... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Voyages and travels - 1830 - 332 pages
...Picachos del Mortero, the Cerro de las Cuevas, and that of Cuiche, is only from 2,460 to 2,624 feet above the level of the sea. In the middle of a tract of ground in which porphyry with a base ofgriinstein predominates, basaltic cones appear, the summits of which are crowned with evergreen... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 528 pages
...fine plantations of cotton. This plain was at the most not over two thousand six hundred feet above the level of the sea. In the middle of a tract of ground in which porphyry, with a base of griinstein predominated, basaltic cones appeared, the summits of which were crowned with evergreen... | |
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A vast plain extends from the hills of Aguasarco, to near the villages of Teipa and Petatlan, both equally celebrated for their fine plantations of cotton. This plain, between... 