Identifier: yearofcostarican00calv (find matches)
Title: A year of Costa Rican natural history
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Calvert, Amelia Smith, b. 1876 Calvert, Philip Powell, b. 1871 joint author
Subjects: Natural history -- Costa Rica Costa Rica -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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thoughslowly during the year we lived there. It was practicallyfinished by May, 1910, and was a very handsome buildingof brick and plaster, with some beautiful carved marblestatues. The dedication was planned to take place in June,1910, but the Peace Palace was absolutely wrecked by theearthquake of May fourth. Cartago is the name of one of the five provinces ofCosta Rica, of the canton central of that province and ofthe town which is at once the capital of the province andhead of the canton. Every canton is divided into dis-tritos. In this case the chief villages of several distritosare not only adjacent to Cartago but perfectly continuouswith it—a geographical fact which is difficult for strangersto appreciate, but which explains the widely different es-timates of the size of Cartago. Thus the villages of Carmenon the north, San Rafael to the northeast, Los Angeles tothe east, San Francisco to the south and Guadalupe on thewest are to the visitor absolutely undistinguishable from
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A Branch of Higueron, Ficus sp.Flowers and Fruits of the Targua, Croton gossypiitoiius. To iace p. 40

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