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Title: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec : being the results of a survey for a railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, made by the scientific commission under the direction of Major J.G. Barnard ... : with a résumé of the geology, climate, local geography, productive industry, fauna and flora, of that region : illustrated with numerous maps and engravings
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Williams, John Jay, 1818-1904 Tehuantepec Railroad Company United States Naval Observatory, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Company ...
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GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. The geological structure of the Isthmus is less clearly markedthan that of the adjoining more elevafed districts of Mexico. Acountry having a horizontality of 135 miles from sea to sea, withan average elevation of not more than 600 feet, cannot presentover its surface many exposed situations where the dip, strike,and nature of the rocky basis could be ascertained ; much of thegentle slope of the northern plains being covered over with clay,sand, and gravel, and so densely wooded, that no appearance ofthe rock formation is discernible. The same may be said ofthe plains on the southern shore. On the middle more elevatedregions the conformation is more evident; and what is de-ficient upon the sides of the hills, owing to the superficial de-posits of gravel and sand, has been in great part exposed bythe sections made naturally, on the large scale in the mount-ain passes. The tertiary clays, gravels, and beds of detritus which coverup so much of the Isthmus along th

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