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“...BRITISH HONDURAS
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The country along the coast is mostly low-lying with
numerous lagoons and a narrow strip of sand along the
seaboard, which is fringed with coco-nut palms. The
rivers include the Hondo, forming the northern boundary
between the colony and Mexico, the New River, on
which is the former military station of Orange Walk,
the Belize, which flows from the Guatemala frontier
and has at its mouth Belize, the capital of the colony;
the Sibun, the Mullens River, the North Stann Creek,
the South Stann Creek, the Monkey River, the Rio
Grande, and the Sarstoon River, which separates British
Honduras from Guatemala on the south. The general
formation of the colony beyond the swampy coast lands
is divided into (r) Cohune ridges, which take their name
from the graceful palm Attalea Cohune, growing in pro-
fusion on their fertile soil, and comprise the lower
tracts of the river; (2) Pine ridge, which includes the
higher levels and takes its name from the Pine...”
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