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The world: (1848)

Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 243

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s nothing to prevent wheel carriages from run-ning along the top of this mountain chain to Santa Fe. Thevolcanic mountains, are five in number, and run at right angles;commencing with the most eastern, wTe have Tuxtla, a few mileswest of Vera Cruz ; Orizava, the height of which is 17,370… … called Jorullo and Colima, the latter being 9000 feet in height.We shall have occasion to speak of Jorullo and its eruptionshereafter. It is somewhat remarkable that these five volcanoesnow active, are connected by a chain of intermediate ones, whichundoubtedly have been so at some remote period,…

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