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... Slope Southern States - Ten years progress in the South - Western Spanish - America and the Far East as new markets for the Southern and Atlantic States - Maury on the Mississippi basin and the Isthmus - Resources of Nicaragua - Water ...
... Slope Southern States - Ten years progress in the South - Western Spanish - America and the Far East as new markets for the Southern and Atlantic States - Maury on the Mississippi basin and the Isthmus - Resources of Nicaragua - Water ...
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... Slope the descent is by the valley of the Rio Grande , entering the Pacific at the port of Panama . On the occasion of my visit I found that some four or five hundred men were being employed , and these almost entirely on the Culebra ...
... Slope the descent is by the valley of the Rio Grande , entering the Pacific at the port of Panama . On the occasion of my visit I found that some four or five hundred men were being employed , and these almost entirely on the Culebra ...
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... slope is not uniform , there being rapids at Toro , Castillo , and Machuca , with an aggregate fall of about 20 feet in the total distance of not more than 2 miles , the fall at Castillo being 4 feet in a space of 1,000 feet ; on the ...
... slope is not uniform , there being rapids at Toro , Castillo , and Machuca , with an aggregate fall of about 20 feet in the total distance of not more than 2 miles , the fall at Castillo being 4 feet in a space of 1,000 feet ; on the ...
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... slope to dis- charge the surplus waters , and , consequently , the level of the river at the dam is estimated at 106 feet above sea level , or 4 feet below the lake . For the purpose of navigation , however , that portion of the river ...
... slope to dis- charge the surplus waters , and , consequently , the level of the river at the dam is estimated at 106 feet above sea level , or 4 feet below the lake . For the purpose of navigation , however , that portion of the river ...
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... slopes found necessary . This work can be more economically done before the water is raised to the assumed summit level , but not before the lower section of the river has been raised by the Ochoa dam to the level of the upper rapids ...
... slopes found necessary . This work can be more economically done before the water is raised to the assumed summit level , but not before the lower section of the river has been raised by the Ochoa dam to the level of the upper rapids ...
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aforesaid amount ARTICLE association Atlantic basin bonds Britain Brito cent Central America Chagres river channel Chontales Clayton-Bulwer treaty coast commerce Company of Nicaragua concession Congress construction contract Corinto cost Costa Rica cubic feet depth Deseado directors distance Divide cut dredging embankments engineers enterprise established estimate excavation favour feet per second Government of Nicaragua Granada granted Greytown guarantee harbour important interest issued isthmus labour Lake Managua Lake Nicaragua lands laws locks Managua Maritime Canal Company material Menocal ment miles Monroe doctrine nations navigation necessary Nicaragua Canal Ochoa dam opening operation Pacific Ocean Panama parties ports present President proposed railroad railway Republic of Nicaragua river San Juan rock route San Carlos San Francisco San Juan river Secretary Senate slope South Spanish steamers stream Suez Canal summit level thereof tion trade traffic Treasury treaty valley vessels volcanic water-way weirs Western Divide width
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Page 298 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same ; which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers ; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us ; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy ; meeting, in all instances, the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries...
Page 296 - At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg to arrange by amicable negotiation the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the northwest coast of this continent.
Page 344 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 340 - ... 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 299 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Page 359 - Panama grants to the United States the use of all the ports of the Republic open to commerce as places of refuge for any vessels employed in the Canal enterprise...
Page 344 - And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Washington, on the...
Page 409 - Company"; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and to be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States...
Page 341 - V. 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 283 - The capital invested by corporations or citizens of other countries in such an enterprise must in a great degree look for protection to one or more of the great powers of the world. No European power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this continent which the United States would deem wholly inadmissible.