The Key of the Pacific: The Nicaragua CanalA. Constable, 1895 - Počet stran: 443 |
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Strana 11
... stream , which drains an area of some 1,400 square miles , discharging in the dry season , at its first point of contact with the line of the canal , 15 cubic metres of water , but CARS in the wet season , 4,670 metres per second ...
... stream , which drains an area of some 1,400 square miles , discharging in the dry season , at its first point of contact with the line of the canal , 15 cubic metres of water , but CARS in the wet season , 4,670 metres per second ...
Strana 12
... streams in various tropi- cal countries , and from my experience , both as an engineer and traveller , have learnt to appreciate their dangerous character , but nowhere - neither in Burmah , India , Indo- China , or South Africa , all ...
... streams in various tropi- cal countries , and from my experience , both as an engineer and traveller , have learnt to appreciate their dangerous character , but nowhere - neither in Burmah , India , Indo- China , or South Africa , all ...
Strana 19
... or ( 3 ) torrential streams whose control within economical limits defies the skill of the engineer . Nicaragua is free from all these obstacles . CHAPTER II . THE CANAL ROUTE . CONCESSIONS AND COMPANIES THE THREE MAIN SCHEMES . 19.
... or ( 3 ) torrential streams whose control within economical limits defies the skill of the engineer . Nicaragua is free from all these obstacles . CHAPTER II . THE CANAL ROUTE . CONCESSIONS AND COMPANIES THE THREE MAIN SCHEMES . 19.
Strana 24
... stream , between which the water rushes with the greatest velocity . They are considered dangerous by the native boatmen . " Of the other rapids he says : " About three miles above the Machuca Rapids are the Rapids of Mico and Los Valos ...
... stream , between which the water rushes with the greatest velocity . They are considered dangerous by the native boatmen . " Of the other rapids he says : " About three miles above the Machuca Rapids are the Rapids of Mico and Los Valos ...
Strana 26
... stream drains a large area in Costa Rica and possesses in a marked degree the general characteristics of a tropical torrential river ; namely , extreme fluctuations in volume , from a nearly dry bed , with barely enough water to float a ...
... stream drains a large area in Costa Rica and possesses in a marked degree the general characteristics of a tropical torrential river ; namely , extreme fluctuations in volume , from a nearly dry bed , with barely enough water to float a ...
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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.