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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 127

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ptionof Mt. Agua on July 29, 1773. This is the most unruly of all Central Amer-icas live mountains. It has taken more lives thanany other. It lies about thirty miles northwestof Guatemala City, the capital of the republic,and can plainly be seen from there as it towersabove the intervening ranges.… … THE RECONSTRUCTED CITY OF ANTIOUA656 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLK 657 on the top of the mountain. This is wrappedin moss and saved. Thus from Mt. Agua thenatives get both hot and cold water. At thefoot of Mt. Agua, like a modern Pompeii, liesthe city of Antigua, the ancient capital of…

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