THE KEY OF THE PACIFIC: THE NICARAGUA CANAL |
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Strana xiii
... Distances saved - Comparison of distances via Suez and Nicaragua - The Far East East trade - New markets- Humboldt's views - Conclusions 306-336 APPENDICES . I. The Clayton and Bulwer Convention . PAGES 339-344 II . The Dickinson - Ayon ...
... Distances saved - Comparison of distances via Suez and Nicaragua - The Far East East trade - New markets- Humboldt's views - Conclusions 306-336 APPENDICES . I. The Clayton and Bulwer Convention . PAGES 339-344 II . The Dickinson - Ayon ...
Strana 20
... distance from port to port being under 170 miles , of which about twenty - seven miles will be excavated canal . Lake Nicaragua , necessarily the summit level of the canal , will be connected with the Pacific by two sections . of canal ...
... distance from port to port being under 170 miles , of which about twenty - seven miles will be excavated canal . Lake Nicaragua , necessarily the summit level of the canal , will be connected with the Pacific by two sections . of canal ...
Strana 22
... distance of 56 miles - comprises the lake navigation proper , and here the 30 feet contour ( below the assumed level ) is met with about fourteen miles from the outlet , and 1,200 feet from the western shore . Between those points the ...
... distance of 56 miles - comprises the lake navigation proper , and here the 30 feet contour ( below the assumed level ) is met with about fourteen miles from the outlet , and 1,200 feet from the western shore . Between those points the ...
Strana 38
... distance actually surveyed by transit and level — in 1 Vide Appendix No. IV. * Vide Appendix No. III. cross-sectioning, and the location of locks, dams, embankments, railroads, flowage-lines, 38 THE KEY OF THE PACIFIC.
... distance actually surveyed by transit and level — in 1 Vide Appendix No. IV. * Vide Appendix No. III. cross-sectioning, and the location of locks, dams, embankments, railroads, flowage-lines, 38 THE KEY OF THE PACIFIC.
Strana 27
... RICA San Carlosz Basin Carlos C SKETCH MAP OF CANAL ROUTE . San River San Juan Lock3 San Francisco Basin Eastern Waterparting Deseado Basin Lock 2 navigable for a distance of 64.5 miles by the erection. OCEAN ATLANTIC Greytoron Locks RIVER.
... RICA San Carlosz Basin Carlos C SKETCH MAP OF CANAL ROUTE . San River San Juan Lock3 San Francisco Basin Eastern Waterparting Deseado Basin Lock 2 navigable for a distance of 64.5 miles by the erection. OCEAN ATLANTIC Greytoron Locks RIVER.
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Strana 216 - 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.
Strana 211 - ... with reference to any means of communication by shipcanal which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by the way of the river San Juan de Nicaragua and either or both of the Lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific Ocean, the President of the United States has conferred full powers on John M.
Strana 212 - Britian take advantage of any intimacy, or use any alliance, connection, or influence that either may possess with any state or government through whose territory the said canal may pass, for the purpose of acquiring or holding, directly or indirectly, for the citizens or subjects of the one, any rights or advantages in regard to commerce or navigation through the said canal, which shall not be offered on the same terms to the citizens or subjects of the other.
Strana 214 - ... between the two oceans, for the benefit of mankind, on equal terms to all, and of protecting the same...
Strana 187 - 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.
Strana 223 - 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...
Strana 216 - 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...
Strana 245 - 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...
Strana 185 - We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Strana 182 - An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus will essentially change the geographical relations between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and between the United States and the rest of the world.