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... Atlantic and the Pacific in Central America . This fact , and the immense natural reservoir of water near the head of the navigation , point out the route as a practicable one for a ship canal between the two oceans . Instead of cutting ...
... Atlantic and the Pacific in Central America . This fact , and the immense natural reservoir of water near the head of the navigation , point out the route as a practicable one for a ship canal between the two oceans . Instead of cutting ...
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... Atlantic slope of Central America , and which continues unbroken from where we had entered it , at Pital , eastward to the Atlantic ; westward it terminates in a sinuous margin about seven miles from the village , and there commence the ...
... Atlantic slope of Central America , and which continues unbroken from where we had entered it , at Pital , eastward to the Atlantic ; westward it terminates in a sinuous margin about seven miles from the village , and there commence the ...
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... Atlantic . In a fragment of the works of Theopompus , who lived in the fourth century before the Christian era , is an account of a conversation between Silenus and Midas , the king of Phrygia , in which the former tells the king that ...
... Atlantic . In a fragment of the works of Theopompus , who lived in the fourth century before the Christian era , is an account of a conversation between Silenus and Midas , the king of Phrygia , in which the former tells the king that ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
Commence journey up San Juan riverPalms and wild canes | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
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