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Title: Notes on Central America : particularly the states of Honduras and San Salvador : their geography, topography, climate, population, resources, productions, etc., etc., and the proposed Honduras inter-oceanic railway
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888 Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Honduras Interoceanic Railway Company
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
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Chap. XL) precious woods. 173 The mahogany grows in nearly all parts of Hondu-ras, in the valleys of the various streams. It is, how-ever, most abundant upon the low grounds which bor-der the rivers flowing into the Bay of Honduras, whereit also attains its greatest size and beauty, and wherethe mahogany-works, called cortes (cuttings) by theSpaniards, are chiefly confined. As these lands arefor the most part the property of the state, the woodis cut under licenses obtained from the government,which exacts a fixed sum for each tree. Except thosemade at the mouths of the various rivers for receiving,marking, and shipping the wood as it is floated down,the mahogany establishments are necessarily tempo-rary, and changed from time to time as trees becomescarce in their neighborhood. Of all occupations known to man, that of the ma-hogany-cutter is perhaps the Avildest in its nature, andyet among the most systematic in its arrangements.When the cutter has fixed upon the valley of someriver

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