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 River ...
... 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 River ...
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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 . The 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 ...
... Atlantic end to serve this purpose . The 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 ...
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RUDOLPH J TAUSSIG | 1 |
FESSENDEN N OTIS | 25 |
PAUL J SCHEIPS | 53 |
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