 | Christopher Columbus Langdell - 1898 - 538 Seiten
...statuary marble. There are immense deposits of pure white sand, suitable for earthenware. CLIMATE. The climate is warm and dry during the greater part of the year, but it is more temperate than in other islands of the same latitude, and more equable than in many... | |
 | 1877 - 174 Seiten
...profusion and luxuriance of vegetable growth, than even in imagination he ever pictured to himself. The climate is warm and dry during the greater part of the year, but it is more temperate than in other islands of the same latitude, and more equable than in many... | |
 | Nathan C. Green - 1896 - 532 Seiten
...statuary marble. There are immense deposits of pure white sand, suitable for earthenware. CLIMATE. The climate is warm and dry during the greater part of the year, but it is more temperate than in other islands of the same latitude, and more equable than in many... | |
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... northern and southern coasts. Marble and jasper of very fine quality are found in many places. In the isle of Pines are beautiful colored marbles, and a quarry of white marble but little inferior to statuary marble. There are immense deposits of pure... 