The Panama Canal: Readings on Its HistorySCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection. |
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... Atlantic to the Pacific without sailing around Cape Horn . This however was not particularly satisfactory , as it ... Atlantic by way of the San Juan River completed . In 1527 Hernando de la Serna was ordered to explore the Chagres ...
... Atlantic to the Pacific without sailing around Cape Horn . This however was not particularly satisfactory , as it ... Atlantic by way of the San Juan River completed . In 1527 Hernando de la Serna was ordered to explore the Chagres ...
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... Atlantic ; so that ships bound from the Pacific to the Atlantic would pass with the flood and those from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the ebb tide of the latter . " The cost of building the canal was estimated at £ 7,000,000 and ...
... Atlantic ; so that ships bound from the Pacific to the Atlantic would pass with the flood and those from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the ebb tide of the latter . " The cost of building the canal was estimated at £ 7,000,000 and ...
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... Atlantic end to serve this purpose . General Board regards these criticisms as unfounded and believes , on the contrary , that the conditions at the Atlantic terminus of the canal are unusually fav- orable for the emplacement of guns ...
... Atlantic end to serve this purpose . General Board regards these criticisms as unfounded and believes , on the contrary , that the conditions at the Atlantic terminus of the canal are unusually fav- orable for the emplacement of guns ...
Contents
RUDOLPH J TAUSSIG | 1 |
No Fortifications for the Panama Canal Reprinted from American Review of Reviews | 13 |
FESSENDEN N OTIS | 25 |
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1st Sess agreement Ambrose W Article authority Board of Trade California Canal Zone Chagres Chiriqui Clayton-Bulwer Treaty coast Colombia Colon Colonel Goethals commerce Committee concession Cong Congress constitution construction convention cost Costa Rica defense economic employees engineer excavation favor feet fleet foreign Government Granada grant Hay-Pauncefote Treaty House ibid interests interoceanic canal Isthmian Canal Isthmus of Panama Lafond Lake Nicaragua land Latin America lock canal Maritime ment miles military nations naval navigation Navy negotiations neutrality Nicaragua Canal Nicaragua route ocean officers Panama Canal Commission Panama Canal Company Panama Canal Treaty Panama Railroad Panama route Panamanian parties political ports President proposed protection question ratification relations Republic of Panama resolution River road San Juan San Juan River sea-level canal Secretary Senate ship railway sovereignty Suez Canal Tehuantepec territory Thompson tion Torrijos transit United vessels Washington York