Nature has given to their country great pasture -lands, wonderful forests of rare woods and fruits, treasures of silver and gold and iron, and soil rich enough to supply the world with coffee, and it only waits for an honest effort to make it the natural... Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America - Page 148by Richard Harding Davis - 1896 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
| Electronic journals - 1897 - 784 pages
...globe. . . . Nature has done so much [in making a passage-way across Nicaragua and again at the Isthmus] that there is little left for man to do, but it will...than a nativeborn Central-American who is to do it." Mr Davis is a great ibeliever in the pressing importance of completing the Nicaraguan Canal ; and a... | |
| Richard Harding Davis - Fiction - 2006 - 276 pages
...They are the dogs in the manger among nations. Nature has given to their country great pasture-lands, wonderful forests of rare woods and fruits, treasures...than a native-born Central-American who is to do it. [...] 1 Source: From Richard Harding Davis, Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America (New York:... | |
| Albert Shaw - Periodicals, English - 1895 - 684 pages
...greatest bodies of water on tho earth's surface. Naturehas done so much that there is little left for mini to do, but it will have to be some other man than a native-born CentralAmerican who is to do it. " LET PANDEMONIUM CONTINUE : IT SUITS US" This evidence is not English, it is American, but it coincides... | |
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