The Great Antilles. Porto Rico. Guam. HawaiiJ. C. Winston Company, 1906 |
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... feet above the sea , and drop to a depth of four miles beneath it . The island of Haiti is the center and culminating point of this range , the highest peak of which , Monte Tina , rises from near the middle of the island to an altitude ...
... feet above the sea , and drop to a depth of four miles beneath it . The island of Haiti is the center and culminating point of this range , the highest peak of which , Monte Tina , rises from near the middle of the island to an altitude ...
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... feet of which are exposed above the sea , descend on the northern side of that island to a depth of twenty - four thousand feet , giving a total declivity of more than five miles . In order properly to appreciate the height of the Santo ...
... feet of which are exposed above the sea , descend on the northern side of that island to a depth of twenty - four thousand feet , giving a total declivity of more than five miles . In order properly to appreciate the height of the Santo ...
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... , but its highest peak , El Yunque , is considerably short of four thousand feet in altitude . This range rolls seaward in heavy un- dulations , which gradually straighten out to broad level playas 47 II . THE ISLAND AND ITS HISTORY.
... , but its highest peak , El Yunque , is considerably short of four thousand feet in altitude . This range rolls seaward in heavy un- dulations , which gradually straighten out to broad level playas 47 II . THE ISLAND AND ITS HISTORY.
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... is not more than half a mile broad near the mainland ( connected with it by the bridge of San Antonio ) , graduates to a point in a headland at about one hundred feet above the sea . The bluffs at this 105 IV . TOWN AND COUNTRY.
... is not more than half a mile broad near the mainland ( connected with it by the bridge of San Antonio ) , graduates to a point in a headland at about one hundred feet above the sea . The bluffs at this 105 IV . TOWN AND COUNTRY.
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C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. hundred feet above the sea . The bluffs at this end of the neck of land , are crowned by the Morro , and the main portion of the city of San Juan lies behind it as one enters the bay from the sea . San Juan has by ...
C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. hundred feet above the sea . The bluffs at this end of the neck of land , are crowned by the Morro , and the main portion of the city of San Juan lies behind it as one enters the bay from the sea . San Juan has by ...
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Página 532 - II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
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Página 535 - The Canal, when constructed, and the entrances thereto shall be neutral in perpetuity, and shall be opened upon the terms provided for by Section I of Article three of, and in conformity with all the stipulations of, the treaty entered into by the Governments of the United States and Great Britain on November 18, 1901.
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