Isthmus of Darien Ship Canal: With a Full History of the Scotch Colony of Darien, Several Maps, Views of the Country, and Original Documents |
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... five miles in length , with a summit level of 160 feet , which had to be carried through moss , quicksand , gravel , and rocks , over precipices , and across valleys ; in the course of which , besides smaller ones , eighteen drawbridges ...
... five miles in length , with a summit level of 160 feet , which had to be carried through moss , quicksand , gravel , and rocks , over precipices , and across valleys ; in the course of which , besides smaller ones , eighteen drawbridges ...
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... five days , and at certain seasons of the year it has been performed by vessels whose top - gallant - sails were not once taken in during the voyage . Violent storms sre seldom experienced in the Pacific , excepting in the vicinity of ...
... five days , and at certain seasons of the year it has been performed by vessels whose top - gallant - sails were not once taken in during the voyage . Violent storms sre seldom experienced in the Pacific , excepting in the vicinity of ...
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... five feet of water on it , while the rise of tide in the Gulf of Darien is only two feet . The CHAGRES , or Limon Bay and Panama route , sur- veyed in 1829 by Col. Lloyd and M. Falmare , under a commission from the Liberator , Simon ...
... five feet of water on it , while the rise of tide in the Gulf of Darien is only two feet . The CHAGRES , or Limon Bay and Panama route , sur- veyed in 1829 by Col. Lloyd and M. Falmare , under a commission from the Liberator , Simon ...
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... five miles , to the Fronton , or point of Sassardi , is sheltered from the winds and seas of both seasons , and has good depth of water . Twenty - two miles S.W. of Port Escoscés is the site of the old Spanish settlement of Fuerte del ...
... five miles , to the Fronton , or point of Sassardi , is sheltered from the winds and seas of both seasons , and has good depth of water . Twenty - two miles S.W. of Port Escoscés is the site of the old Spanish settlement of Fuerte del ...
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... five miles , of which there would be but three or four miles of deep cutting . The Canal , to be on a scale of grandeur commensurate with its important uses , should be cut sufficiently deep to allow the tide of the Pacific to flow ...
... five miles , of which there would be but three or four miles of deep cutting . The Canal , to be on a scale of grandeur commensurate with its important uses , should be cut sufficiently deep to allow the tide of the Pacific to flow ...
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650 individuals Aglaseniqua America ANTONIO VELASQUEZ arrived Atlantic and Pacific Atrato bank Bogota bound in cloth Caledonia Bay canoes Cape Capt Captain Don Carolina Carreto Carthagena Chepo Choco Chuquanaqua climate coast Colonel Childs colonists colony commerce Company Concepcion Cullen Darien scheme depth Edward Cullen English establishment excellent feet forests formed Gisborne gold Government Granada Gulf of Darien Gulf of Fonseca Gulf of San harbour hills Indians Indies Island Isthmus of Darien Isthmus of Panama labourers land letter Limon Bay Majesty's Mandinga ments miles mouth navigation Nicaragua Canal Pacific Ocean Palm-leaves Panama passage Paterson plantains Port Escoscés Portobello Price Principe proposed provisions Putrigandi remain for service road route royal Sailed San Miguel Santa Maria Sassardi schooner Scotch Scotland Señora serjeants settlement Ship Canal shore Sir Charles Fox sloop soldiers South Spaniards Spanish Sucubti tide trade Tuyra Urruchurchu vessels wind Yavisa
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Page 144 - ... to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the interoceanic communications should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
Page 141 - The contracting parties further engage that when the said canal shall have been completed they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal may forever be open and "free, and the capital invested therein secure.
Page 140 - ... erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America...
Page 140 - In order to secure the construction of the said canal, the contracting parties engage that if any such canal shall be undertaken upon fair and equitable terms by any parties having the authority of the local Government or Governments through whose territory the same may pass, then the persons employed in making the said canal, and their property used, or to be used, for that object, shall be protected, from the commencement of the said canal to its completion, by the Governments of the United States...
Page 144 - In granting, however, their joint protection to any such canals or railways as are by this article specified, it is always understood by the United States and Great Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall impose no other charges or conditions of traffic thereupon than the aforesaid governments shall approve of as just and equitable ; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms...
Page 140 - ... with any State or people for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...
Page 212 - GRAMMAR, cloth bds., 5s. 6d. 48. Composition and Punctuation, familiarly Explained for those who have neglected the Study of Grammar. By JUSTIN BRENAN. i7th Edition. is. 6d. 49. Derivative Spelling-Book: Giving the Origin of Every Word from the Greek, Latin, Saxon, German, Teutonic, Dutch, French, Spanish, and other Languages ; with their present Acceptation and Pronunciation. By J.
Page 141 - Government, should deem that the persons. or company, undertaking or managing the same, adopt or establish such regulations concerning the traffic thereupon, as are contrary to the spirit and intention of this Convention,—either by making unfair discriminations in favor of the commerce of one of...
Page 139 - The Governments of Great Britain and the United States hereby declare that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship-canal; agreeing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof...
Page 143 - The Governments of the United States and Great Britain having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus...