The Key of the Pacific: The Nicaragua CanalA. Constable, 1895 - Počet stran: 443 |
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Strana 8
... difficulties ? When in Central America , in addition to my examina- tion of the Nicaragua Canal , I made a personal inspection of the Panama line , paying special attention to the two main difficulties , -the Chagres river and the ...
... difficulties ? When in Central America , in addition to my examina- tion of the Nicaragua Canal , I made a personal inspection of the Panama line , paying special attention to the two main difficulties , -the Chagres river and the ...
Strana 12
... difficulties , mainly by the uncontrolled giant floods of the Chagres river , which hold undisputed sway over this route , and by the Culebra cut , the character of which had never been properly ascertained . THE TEHUANTEPEC SHIP ...
... difficulties , mainly by the uncontrolled giant floods of the Chagres river , which hold undisputed sway over this route , and by the Culebra cut , the character of which had never been properly ascertained . THE TEHUANTEPEC SHIP ...
Strana 13
... difficulties , of whom de Lesseps was such a striking example . Lesseps , it is too often forgotten , was not an engineer , either in the professional meaning of the word , or even in a much broader sense . ' The report of the House ...
... difficulties , of whom de Lesseps was such a striking example . Lesseps , it is too often forgotten , was not an engineer , either in the professional meaning of the word , or even in a much broader sense . ' The report of the House ...
Strana 16
... difficulties from engineering , commercial , and economic points of view , than any of the other routes shown to be practicable by surveys pek No. sufficiently in detail to enable a judgment to 16 THE KEY OF THE PACIFIC . to face.
... difficulties from engineering , commercial , and economic points of view , than any of the other routes shown to be practicable by surveys pek No. sufficiently in detail to enable a judgment to 16 THE KEY OF THE PACIFIC . to face.
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... difficulty , is the rock - blasting under water at Castillo and Toro rapids ( amounting to about 400,000 cubic yards ) , the quantity to be determined by the side slopes found necessary . This work can be more economically done before ...
... difficulty , is the rock - blasting under water at Castillo and Toro rapids ( amounting to about 400,000 cubic yards ) , the quantity to be determined by the side slopes found necessary . This work can be more economically done before ...
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ARTICLE association Atlantic basin bonds Britain Brito capital Caribbean Sea carried cent Central America channel Chontales Clayton-Bulwer treaty coast commerce communication Company of Nicaragua concession Congress construction contract Corinto cost Costa Rica cubic feet depth Deseado distance Divide cut dredging embankments engineers enterprise established estimate excavation favour feet per second Government of Nicaragua Granada granted Greytown harbour Honduras important Indian isthmus labour Lake Managua Lake Nicaragua lands laws length locks 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 privileges proposed railroad railway Republic of Nicaragua river San Juan rock route San Carlos San Francisco San Juan river Senate slope South Spanish steamers stream Suez Canal summit level surveys tion tons trade traffic treaty valley vessels volcanic water-way weirs Western Divide whole width
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Strana 296 - 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...
Strana 294 - 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.
Strana 342 - 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 338 - ... 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...
Strana 297 - 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 357 - 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 342 - 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 407 - 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 339 - 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.
Strana 281 - 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.