Nicaragua (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Nicaragua San Juan del Sur has a small but deep and safe harbor, with an entrance about half a mile in Width between piles of rock more than 400 feet in height. It was brought into prominence from 1851 to 18 5 5 as the Pacific port of the Nicaragua transit line, by way of the lake and San Juan River from the Caribbean coast, by which many thousands of American. Passengers traveled to reach the Eldorado of California. The bay of Salinas forms a beautiful, deep port, nearly circular in shape, embracing an area of about 8 square miles. The center of this bay marks the western terminus of the boundary line between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.