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NICARAGUA; ITS PEOPLE, SCENERY, MONUMENTS, RESOURCES, CONDITION, AND PROPOSED CANAL;
WITH
ONE HUNDRED ORIGINAL MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
By E. G. SQUIER,
FORMERLY CHARGE D’AFFAIRES OF THE UNITED STATES
TO THE REPUBLICS OF CENTRAL AMERICA.

“HIC LOCUS EST GEMINI JANUA VASTA MARIS.”—OVID
A REVISED EDITION
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1860.
IIIEntered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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