The Key of the Pacific: The Nicaragua CanalA. Constable, 1895 - Počet stran: 443 |
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... flows some 119 miles through a broad valley , almost due east , to its mouth south of Greytown . Its minimum flow is 12,000 cubic feet per second , the width varying from 800 to 2,000 feet , and the average fall being 11 inches per mile ...
... flows some 119 miles through a broad valley , almost due east , to its mouth south of Greytown . Its minimum flow is 12,000 cubic feet per second , the width varying from 800 to 2,000 feet , and the average fall being 11 inches per mile ...
Strana 26
... hills recede from the banks , so that , for a few miles above the confluence , the San Carlos flows through a wide valley , elevated but a FROM 50 BASIN SAILING RANCISCO CANQ CAMP CAM AM . 28 THE KEY OF THE PACIFIC . to face.
... hills recede from the banks , so that , for a few miles above the confluence , the San Carlos flows through a wide valley , elevated but a FROM 50 BASIN SAILING RANCISCO CANQ CAMP CAM AM . 28 THE KEY OF THE PACIFIC . to face.
Strana 34
... flow in the rainy portion of the year . Its maximum volume has been estimated as high as 10,000 cubic feet per second ; but this is attained only in times of extra- San Jorge Rio Tola DO Forest PACIFIC SAN JUAN DEL 34 THE KEY OF THE ...
... flow in the rainy portion of the year . Its maximum volume has been estimated as high as 10,000 cubic feet per second ; but this is attained only in times of extra- San Jorge Rio Tola DO Forest PACIFIC SAN JUAN DEL 34 THE KEY OF THE ...
Strana 65
... flow in the river of 20,000 cubic feet per second , the depth of water on the top of the weir will be about 3 feet . The average height of the dam above the river bottom is 61 feet , its thickness at the top 30 feet , and at the bottom ...
... flow in the river of 20,000 cubic feet per second , the depth of water on the top of the weir will be about 3 feet . The average height of the dam above the river bottom is 61 feet , its thickness at the top 30 feet , and at the bottom ...
Strana 66
... flow freely during the construction of the main part of the structure , these openings to be closed by gates in the upper side when the upper part of the dam , its approaches and aprons , were completed ; and then to be filled with ...
... flow freely during the construction of the main part of the structure , these openings to be closed by gates in the upper side when the upper part of the dam , its approaches and aprons , were completed ; and then to be filled with ...
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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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Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.