The Colombian and Venezuelan Republics: With Notes on Other Parts of Central and South AmericaLittle, Brown,, 1910 - Počet stran: 380 |
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... Congress of the Republic changed it to Colón in honor of the discoverer of the continent.1 This was all well enough . Nobody disputed the right of the Government to give names to towns and cities within its own domain and jurisdiction ...
... Congress of the Republic changed it to Colón in honor of the discoverer of the continent.1 This was all well enough . Nobody disputed the right of the Government to give names to towns and cities within its own domain and jurisdiction ...
Strana 14
... Congress of the Republic had appointed a special com- mittee to investigate and report upon the feasibility of an inter - oceanic ship canal by the then much - talked - of Atrato route . The chairman of this committee , a civil engineer ...
... Congress of the Republic had appointed a special com- mittee to investigate and report upon the feasibility of an inter - oceanic ship canal by the then much - talked - of Atrato route . The chairman of this committee , a civil engineer ...
Strana 15
... Congress , " which was proposed to be held in Paris under the auspices of the Paris Geographical Society , of which count Ferdinand de Lesseps was then president . This was preliminary to the farcical " Canal Congress , " held in Paris ...
... Congress , " which was proposed to be held in Paris under the auspices of the Paris Geographical Society , of which count Ferdinand de Lesseps was then president . This was preliminary to the farcical " Canal Congress , " held in Paris ...
Strana 16
... Congress with dictatorial powers , he sent out an agent authorized to propose an inter - oceanic canal scheme to the merchants and capitalists of London , the real ob- ject being to stimulate a formal recognition of the new Republic ...
... Congress with dictatorial powers , he sent out an agent authorized to propose an inter - oceanic canal scheme to the merchants and capitalists of London , the real ob- ject being to stimulate a formal recognition of the new Republic ...
Strana 17
... Congress were instructed to " favor any rea- sonable project looking to a water transit of the isth- mus ; " but , as the Congress itself was a failure , the canal scheme was again doomed to defeat , or at least to indefinite delay . It ...
... Congress were instructed to " favor any rea- sonable project looking to a water transit of the isth- mus ; " but , as the Congress itself was a failure , the canal scheme was again doomed to defeat , or at least to indefinite delay . It ...
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