Note XII-34 — Chapter XII · REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA. 1838-1855.
Reading edition
Altogether about 76,000 square miles. Strangeways' Mosq., 4-5. Lord Palmerston, in his instructions to Brit. represent. in Nueva Granada and Cent. Am., spoke of a coast line of about 720 statute miles as belonging to Mosq. Squier, Cent. Am., 629, has it that from 200 to 500 miles in length, and undefined breadth, have been claimed.