The Nicaragua CanalHarper & brothers, 1900 - 334 pages |
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... the Atlantic Coast , the traveler crosses first the flat forest - covered lands , characterized chiefly by black alluvial soil , then encounters rising ground still densely wooded , where rocks and clay crop out of the loam . 9.
... the Atlantic Coast , the traveler crosses first the flat forest - covered lands , characterized chiefly by black alluvial soil , then encounters rising ground still densely wooded , where rocks and clay crop out of the loam . 9.
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William E. Simmons. where rocks and clay crop out of the loam . This rising ground soon becomes mountainous , declining in altitude toward the valley of the San Juan , in the south , and increasing in alti- tude toward the north , where ...
William E. Simmons. where rocks and clay crop out of the loam . This rising ground soon becomes mountainous , declining in altitude toward the valley of the San Juan , in the south , and increasing in alti- tude toward the north , where ...
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... rocks into the river to bar the passage of English ships during the wars between the two countries in the seventeenth century . The character of the rapids , however , makes that explanation a manifest absurdity . Probably the truth is ...
... rocks into the river to bar the passage of English ships during the wars between the two countries in the seventeenth century . The character of the rapids , however , makes that explanation a manifest absurdity . Probably the truth is ...
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... rocks , ór tufas , which make excellent building material , abound upon the surface or within easy reach of it , while along with these occur sulphurous pumice and other recent vol- canic formations . East of the lakes are found in ...
... rocks , ór tufas , which make excellent building material , abound upon the surface or within easy reach of it , while along with these occur sulphurous pumice and other recent vol- canic formations . East of the lakes are found in ...
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... inquiry into the character of the soil and the underlying rock over the entire route of the canal . One of the most important results of this vast preparatory labor is that ac- curate calculations can be made of the cost of excavating 77.
... inquiry into the character of the soil and the underlying rock over the entire route of the canal . One of the most important results of this vast preparatory labor is that ac- curate calculations can be made of the cost of excavating 77.
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Page 334 - That in any agreement with the Republic of Colombia, or with the States of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, the President is authorized to guarantee to said Republic or to said States the use of said canal and harbors, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, for all vessels owned by said States or by citizens thereof.
Page 334 - ... protection of a canal connecting the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean by what is commonly known as the Nicaragua route, shall through the said Isthmian Canal Commission cause to be excavated and constructed a ship canal and waterway from a point on the shore of the Caribbean Sea near Greytown, by way of Lake Nicaragua, to a point near Brito on the Pacific Ocean.
Page 333 - That the President of the United States be, and is hereby authorized to acquire from the States of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, for and in behalf of the United States, control of such portion of territory now belonging to Costa Rica and Nicaragua as may be desirable and necessary on which to excavate, construct, and protect a canal...
Page 334 - That the sum of ten million dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, toward the project herein contemplated by either route so selected. And the President is hereby...
Page 25 - Phthisis Pulmonalis 3 Dysentery 47 The disease which is most liable to prove fatal is Dysentery, but this characteristic of that grave disorder is the same in all climates. Most of the diseases met with have been mild in type, this being especially true of Bronchitis and Pneumonia, the latter frequently having its crisis on the sixth day. The cases of fever, when of the remittent or intermittent types, are very amenable to treatment and not of long duration ; the former generally disappearing in...
Page 65 - Pacific coast, possesses, both for the construction and maintenance of a canal, greater advantages and offers fewer difficulties from engineering, commercial, and economic points of view than any one of the other routes shown to be practicable by surveys sufficiently in detail to enable a judgment to be formed of their relative merits, as will be briefly presented in the appended memorandum.
Page 258 - I saw were killed through the large harlequin beetle (Acrocimis longimanus) laying its eggs in the cuts, and the grubs that are hatched boring great holes all through the trunk. When these grubs are at work you can hear their rasping by standing at the bottom of the tree, and the wood dust thrown out of their burrows accumulates in heaps on the ground below.
Page 174 - For large spaces the whole ground seems resting upon a boiling cauldron, and is encrusted with mineral deposits. There are also many places where the ground is depressed and bare, resembling a honey-combed, ferruginous clay-pit, from which sulphurous vapors are constantly rising, destroying vegetation in the vicinity, but especially to the leeward, where they are carried by the wind. By daylight nothing is to be seen at these places, except a kind of tremulous motion of the heated atmosphere near...
Page 258 - ... are as tough as cord. They then proceed to score the bark with cuts, which extend nearly round the tree like the letter V, the point being downward.