In and Out of Central America: And Other Sketches and Studies of Travel (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from In and Out of Central America: And Other Sketches and Studies of Travel The usually accurate Humboldt mistakes in saying that the chain of the Andes extends unbroken from Cc lombia to Mexico. There are a great many short irregu lar ranges, and their general trend is east and west. Honduras is so broken and hillocky as to have reminded me of the West India island of Dominica, whose surface Columbus aptly compared to the appearance of a lot of stiff paper after being rumpled in the hand. The volca noes - of which there are some fifty in Central America, most of them being extinct - though more or less isolated, appear to be in irregular lines not far distant from the Pacific. The general superficial appearance of Central America may be said to be - save on the Caribbean coasts, where it is low and level - that of a region of forest-clad hills, fertile valleys, large lakes, and small rivers. All the capitals are in the intei'ior, and are situated generally at an altitude of from three to five thousand feet, where the climate is cool and salubrious, the seaports connecting with the capitals are small, hot, and unhealthy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.