...imate: arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers Terrain: mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest Land use: 12% arable land; NEGL%... ...cludes NEGL% irrigated Environment: damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; soil degradation, desertification, overgrazing, deforestation,... ...ers ; hot, clear, dry summers; interior is cooler and wetter Terrain: mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast Land use: 21% arable land; ... ...098,580 km 2 ; land area: 1,084,390 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of California and Texas combined Land boundaries: 6,083 km total Boundary di... ...75,440 km 2 ; land area: 469,440 km 2 Comparative area: slightly larger than California Land boundaries: 4,554 km total Coastline: 402 km Maritime cla... ... 125 km Ports: 6 major (Barranquilla, Buenaven- tura, Cartagena, San Andres, Santa Marta, Tumaco) Civil air: 106 major transport aircraft Airfields: 6... ...llo Martinez; Authentic Party of the Revolution (PARM), Carlos Enrique Cantu Rosas Voting strength: (1985 congressional election) 66% PRI, 15% PAN, 3%... ...u das Cabra: SAO TOME llhade Sao Tome VMa Gago Coutinhi See regional map VII Santa Cruz Geography Total area: 960 km 2 ; land area: 960 km 2 Comparati... ... about 11.2% of central government budget South Pacific Ocean ^Choiseul Gizo Santa Isabel Yandina 0*upKiiAo, Guadalcanal Santa ^San ff Cru* Cristobal ...

...d we have talked far into the night: “He liked a gold cup...he liked the mountains...he liked the cove...yes, he went farther out to sea than anyon... ...those who have died. Dreaming, I counted our island, our town, our trees, mountains and sea. I added my home. However childish to enumerate like thi... ...n two or three; then others came. Their parents had died in the plague at Santa Maria; I guess it was at Santa Maria. Those were hungry weeks for all... ...ient trees, uprooted trees, torn to pieces by the fury...the fragments of mountains must spill into valleys...immensity must burst the barrier of riv... ...you find it in the Argentière Pass?” “No, I found it when I climbed Monte Rosa, when I was making notes on the quality of light among the glaciers a... ...Years ago, as a youngster, I liked to sit in front of the marble façade of Santa Maria Novella. In the wintertime it could be a balmy spot. Girls..... ... writing very slowly now. While painting The Last Supper I lived at the Santa Maria delle Grazie some of the time, working day after day, often sl... ... the grain, think of me and the words I summon: convic- tion me to another Rosalind: the Touchstone will unblacken and reveal pure, pure gold: alchem... ... Abdomen. He’s as clever with his scalpel as his concoctions of wormwood, rosarum and menthol. Around Stratford, he is best known for his treatment ...

... with foliage that no glimpse of the rock appears. The building seems very airily situated. It has the appearance of being on a shelf half-way up the ... ...one man who could. I knew he could, however, because he told me so him- self. He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely cor... ...ld, however, because he told me so him- self. He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely corner of California, among the woo... ... summer morning it was, and how the flowers did pour out their fragrance, and how the birds did sing! It was just the time for a tramp through the woo... ... he finally put an end to his misery by drowning himself. Presently we passed the place where a man of better odor was born. This was the children’s f... ...for in these matters I was ignorant. I opened Mr. Hinchliff’s Summer Months Among the Alps (published 1857), and selected his account of his ascent of... ...ng out of the barren ocean of ice and rock around it.” Then the Breithorn and the Dent Blanche caught the radiant glow; but “the in- tervening mass of... ... to see the sun himself, yet the whole air soon grew warmer after the splen- did birth of the day.” 195 A Tramp Abroad He gazed at the lofty crown of... ...Switzerland, and they must all be as elaborately declined as the examples above suggested. Difficult?—troublesome?—these words cannot describe it. I h...

... or risk prevent any expedition from the mainland reaching Fort Pickens or Santa Rosa Island. Y ou will exhibit this order to any naval officer at Pen... ...sk prevent any expedition from the mainland reaching Fort Pickens or Santa Rosa Island. Y ou will exhibit this order to any naval officer at Pensacola... ... any office or authority upon the is- lands of Key West, the Tortugas, and Santa Rosa, which may 233 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five be in... ...ffice or authority upon the is- lands of Key West, the Tortugas, and Santa Rosa, which may 233 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five be inconsis... ...- ants of that part of the State of Virginia lying west of the Al- legheny Mountains, and of such other parts of that State, and the other States here... ...mainder be sent to Mitchell at Cincinnati, for Ander- son. All east of the mountains be appropriated to McClellan and to the coast. As to movements, m... ...is for the military men to decide whether they can find a pass through the mountains at or near the Gap which cannot be defended by the enemy with a g... ...ges, while, in fact, Wiscon- sin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Florida, Texas, California, and Oregon have never had any such courts. Nor can this well be...

... . . . . . . . . . 40 CHAPTER XIII — TRADING—A BRITISH SAILOR CHAPTER XIV — SANTA BARBARA—HIDE DROGH ING—HARBOR . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 DUTIES—D... ...mmediately for the anchorage, but, owing to the winds which drew about the mountains and came to us in flaws from every point of the compass, we did... ...ight breeze coming from off shore, and hearing the frogs and crickets. The mountains seemed almost to hang over us, and apparently from the very he... ...uses, or waiting at the landing place for our boat to come ashore. The mountains were high, but not so overhanging as they appeared to be by st... ...at Point Conception, lat. 34 deg. 32’ N., long. 120 deg. 06’ W. The port of Santa Barbara, to which we were bound, lying about fifty miles to the so... ...next morning, Jan. 14th, 1835, we came to anchor in the spacious bay of Santa Barbara, after a voyage of one hundred and fifty days from Boston. ... ...ing of the Ayacucho. In a short time she appeared, standing out from Santa Rosa Island, under the lee of which she had been hove to, all night. Our ... ...e high poop and top gallant forecastle, and other marks of the Italian ship Rosa, and the brig proved to be the Catalina, which we saw at Santa Barba... ...ame to anchor, moored ship, and commenced discharging hides and tallow. The Rosa had purchased the house occupied by the Lagoda, and the Catalina to...

...APTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, 38 -- CHAPTER XIII ...

...ical hills, and the horizon is bounded by an irregular chain of more lofty mountains. The scene, as beheld through the hazy atmosphere of this climate... ...oise of their song. One morning the view was singularly clear; the distant mountains being projected with the sharpest outline on a heavy bank of dark... ...re similar, but on a much smaller scale, to those so commonly found on the mountains of Wales. The desire to signalize any event, on the highest point... ...Negro to R. Colorado —Sacred Tree—Patagonian Hare—Indian Families —General Rosas—Proceed to Bahia Blanca—Sand Dunes—Negro Lieutenant—Bahia Blanca—Sali... ...Buenos Ayres equipped some time since an army under the command of General Rosas for the purpose of exterminating them. The troops were now encamped o... ...; a river lying about eighty miles northward of the Rio Negro When General Rosas left Buenos Ayres he struck in a direct line across the unexplored pl... ...gress is slow. On two occasions I saw some os- triches swimming across the Santa Cruz river, where its course was about four hundred yards wide, and t... ...an average, but he asserted that more than one fe- male deposited them. At Santa Cruz we saw several of these birds. They were excessively wary: I thi... ...r the Rio Colo- rado to between 600 and 700 nautical miles south- ward, at Santa Cruz (a river a little south of St. Julian), it reaches to the foot o...