The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1866, Page 6

7 Cae 6 NEW YORK HERALD. WEDNES AY. DECEMBER 20, 1866. in hate — -PROPOSZD ROUTES OF INTEROGEAN'; COMMUNICATION IN CENTRAL AMERICA, cc ag ee ee —_—__ ee * AN WATLANT : what is as true now as it'was ms pl Neat tem the varaev? ‘tho satementa made wy te edvosntes, umd | insufficient for'versels of INTEROCEANIC COMMUNICATION ti feaciiuny of “te project with reeeey tc the nat. | dinvelia 1s obhiged'co include In, tite estiumates tho som strana Atlantic and Pacific Ship Camals | fenmnes rerpert by all who r of useful labors and great abilities. Ie te not worth white r; and in Orderto render this sutyect still more intel~ ‘to follow him ever th 10 a the state- ible to tho reader, I have added —o—— or Sci ir agatng news Rone, | Wee ret era fad ea ny ‘ments of Mr.'Bailoy, or th: nnn nme or to dwell ‘the unfavoral conditions arising from | which contetrs the topographical Teaturesand profile ‘climate, earthquake, volcanoes,,ao, Iwill base what I | the route. ‘have to upon th of the wu Tethirae of Paoama proper. Account of AN the Proposed | Mews chia and Tay. in W syeare 850061 for the e uame of Daien'to thal. yeti American Atlantis and l’acific’ Gamal Company. ot the isttenus which is contaised betwoon the Pastema woyocerys iearagut oy © auore and ‘cany Panatua lin ue by @ ‘route to Staaten Brito. “It traverses the lake @tirectly w its outlet at Port | the proviz.ce of Choco, there are oy other Nas or thi fao Vovngd i siaderen Sack. owater havigalion: one per which have always command: juan river for a arice exes a m™! 7 i t Advantages and Objections of the | 3% al An dopenapen of che rpiver, 10 | These three fortes are froma he tao fellow es belt an ovnce per Gay’ ta the laborer Orion | length of tis seven miles and 1,044 yard. At mt ae mol ge tow Aa A 5 i . Fr i San Juan del?vore. This plan ¢f opera- | to San*E las or Mandi: tino called Gulf of they yield four ounces day. The mine of Cana is | Mont Cenzw it is, in soction, twenty-six hy a feveral Schem:s. tion requires fourteen locks te deteond from the lake to | bay, from the Gulf of an Miguel te Oxledonta Bag workee by a th fae Bho and twenty feet eight incher high ebove the rails. | passages ‘and illusirations.’ T am, bowover, free rom the Peoific Ovean, and foursenn locks to descuad from | frome Gulf of San Migaet to theocuthem pret -<T the dn our own time this line of-communication hee re- | Throoghout tne Ime it passes through rock, | soy temptation wo do #0; for age aware that ene the lake to the Caribbean in Which las enumera. | Galf-os Urabe or Darien, or else to sun Poe eiee ceived more attention than any other, except the Pa- | and in somo places very hard rock. This, far the | suull best answer the end of the tebe 8 tor are included Hight lockeet dams on the “an Juan, | lower part of the Atratoelow the mouth of the nama line. The governments of Great Britain, France | greatest and work of tbe kind ever | I am writing by conlining myself ae a dat nthe” rh Lowill take ‘Uses three in tue order mew men. | and the United Slates have each undertaken its explora. | yet undertaken, with its covered drain throughout, its | to the actnal state of our knowledge of great tath- GOLUTION or THE PROBLEX. ee ee pM eediggy asec earhore; Conse dy ails i ton with a singular want ef success. One Enzlisu sur- Koing of masonry, its recesses at the distance of every | muases, and to the channels into whieh 4 Wil be nocesary ai the twe peista of depectare from The Gret of thes Meer, from Chepo to San Milas, "hes | véyor, bin, Gisborne, entered the cou: from Caledonia | Ofty metres (106 feet), avd its chambers ten or twelve | are to be directed. ay oe not forbear ~) the Ia per’ American statesman ana . The seaports ot cowmand Evito, at the | alwars been the sub; is! curionty wat eoronnt | bay, and, after reaching the eammit of the Cordilt fect square, at imervals of 1,650 may woll spur us | that it is Interesting to ‘wwro ends of the Tine, wit ieee costly aad erionsive of ths jealous exclusion’ by tie Indians of x mage od turned back. Captain ost, of the royal navy, | on to engage in this enterprise, atch ‘had for its object — day to sre in what eo ee = Report of Rear Admiral C. H. Davia, of | 1provemoats in tho way of excavations, piers, jettios, | from their territory. ur aconrate Kaowk the | Lo exploring p whichyneconded the Savaunah from | the union not of two adjacent countries, but of remote mus was regarded by & oS ogeed s it, Ireakwaters, Go, The total longth of the fine ie a Little | gsogephy of the cossteon both sitos, « us to‘de.’ | the Gulf of San the head of navigation, | continents; the not of interior traffic in one | latter part of the last century. (V* ry mple’s the Naval Observatory, Maxie in wore than one hundred-end uinety-fonr (i) miles. It | termine that here ie the narrowest part of fstimas. | aud thence cut bis way throceh the woods and sweraps | or two districts, but of commorce and intercourse | Memoirs, vol. 2, page 111 ) neat . may bo safely assorved that no enterprise, presenting | This is‘ol itseif an important fact, and to thisa | ati! he reached the Cordiliera, when he also turned | between al! tbo peoples of the habitable globe. I sey Ihave still one moro exploration region to Accordarce With a Resolution formaitovle difficuities, will ever be ‘andertaken | yumor or,report has beer received Crom ie Tndians in | back, Ho soys in the official report pf bis ings, | this because the construction of an interoceanic ship | mension, the last one of which we have any, sccaral ith oven omr present knerfisdee of tho American | vbir vicinity that they ere in the habi of Nog their | undor date of January 4, 18h4:—“Although Ing our- | canal isto borrow tue thought of an eloquent writer on | know! but by no mans the Jeast tied of the United States Senste. thinuses. Mtill Jen te it ilkely tobe satered upon | canees on wooden sh@es across tho Cerdilipres from selves in the centre of the Cordilleras, and, I be’ieva, | thie sul @ same thing as if by eome revolution of | and pri I refor [eT of M. Bourd' ¥ while sued ecrong ant! well-founded hopes are enter- | Maertinga river, and lennohiay them in the weters of the | rithin a very few miles of the ot a our globe the eastern shores of A#ia and the soathern | civil engineer, who was emp' in 1864, by a French ae. & ae. tamed by the promoters of Gre union of the Atlantic | Bayanos. This ramer, which i sotiad by «many | having already cxrceeded tho lwits of my stay, it be- | continent were nearer to us. kocloty, to conduct a new exploration on tho Isthmus of os and Pacide eceant of Sudtug cewhete a very much | writors, is partiouleriy’ noticrd by Mr. Oliphant, } came my daty to rejoin the ship without delay, still feel- Such are the prospects whieh the statements of Dr. | Darien. For the greater convenience of supplic: for hie decimals easier, choaper and moe prectt able a for Ssemel, ‘the secretary of the Heoyal er, Seclety, ma | ing a u bord ase our tye core Calton er to us. ore me with extreme reluct- ey, found it ios come med the cine aide. : in every way avited ws the preaont demands of enin- tread hefore that rociaty on the 24ch of April "4665. | us, wo oaliy ‘have rear! otic | ane am compe say that there state- pedition comprised 5 wher: On March 19, 1860, to United StntowSemate-ceMed | merce and uaviguciou. The viative merasofihe Nica- Be writer of fons parr: meade a jorrmey from Panama tw | shores, and that casity, by following one of the several | ments stand in Dr. Cullen's book as mere | one was an Iodian and siemens ‘ oegroen, M,Bourilole ‘apn the Secretary of the Navy to furgh, throogh a } ragua route ar ‘acsiowole lime for the construction | the Chepe or Reyoner river amply fer a reoomnoimance, | rivers or e:reams which appear to exist in this range of | artertions, unacoompanied by notes or mensure- ‘Saport of the Superintendent of the Neve Observatory, Of a ship canal’ do not veqaire further conside: va. ent he says the: the tle of the Pacific extends to within | bitte, geben 2 certain passages to the sea." ments. I cannot but jon with Admiral Fits Thave taken (iilds” survey as a steadard. Ff will | ffteon miter of the narhern const, and that be sew'from Tue expedition of Strain, though it called out aremark- | regret that Dr. Culen has mot given to the world On account of the various proposed linen dg! commanica “ thorefore mention the! It iv regarded by Squierand ater | Ohapo a reraarkabledepression it the mountain chain | abie display of courage and endurance tinder the most | journals and details of his Tepeaied explorations; such, fen betwoon tho Atlantic end Pacific cossms—eepscially , competrat auiberiiier «othe authentic and reliable car- | ght ten milew dient. He makes the remark, imwhich | tearful (rials, was even less fruittul of knowledge than | for example, as are given by 3 ! j voy of the Nicaragasrroute; aml, farther, that in March, | gil sill concer, that ito @ discredit to the abviliantion of | those of Gixrborne and Prevort, about the same line. Ye Tehavatepec, Hondures, Nicaragus, Panama -and § 1°91 (Mt wings, revorteand sstimateerere mubnitied | Gre huneiee ch centary that the part of the istmus | 1 have appended « Rombered 8, of the joint | to observe that Adal Atrato ba statement of the reletive merits of th® § t the examination of Oolonols Abert and Turnbell, | seouif not hive beomerplored. This is net,cwing; how. | exploration of the two zh gentiemen bere wen- | for ‘ valuable ict Foutes ‘nx practicable lines for tho eastractioa of a | United States cuginoars. - Hanier's lnaguags ta reaped * obte the survey is vory emphatic; ns says, “chUde’ surrey Ap ema” Ths CH One in euch -securat © | tie oniy one to be asee;leber conforming 10 madera Rmowledge tho premisce as would prevent the waste guginerring rq iremonts.”’ “Childs* report was further @F money on infeasibis plans. In respones to thie wall ed by the Earl ef Maimosbury é9 Ei nee who wi. v (ne's report to the Royal accounts a6 td's point were wade by Mr. Hopkine and Mr. Wheel | Ceogrephical Society. It will be perceived that the | and for being the fi Wright. Tuer were boit driven back by the-aborigines. | routes of these two gentlemen join on to each other, | low summit level.” Bia vers. guatitving © have 3 nD Ny Power to say that | Sections of both tracks are given on the map. ment ‘is corroporated Wo the rivilization of the nineteenth oen- The only person In oer time who claims to have | Dr, Gulion the merit * igeble xénlnand | crossed the isthmus directly between the two great | observation the river enterprise of Mr. Frederick M. Keliey, of New York,of | bays is Dr. Cullen. Dr. Callen says that om hia | Chi ee on account of thie <tscredit tory has been reweved by tio indefati vped iis author persons! ming Golonel Chi:ds’ laborious industry. He Rear Admire) Haris Las pesrented a report which adv and yielded only when the gbstac! insurmountable. a came . sadly eume up the whole oune, and laye tefore tie coun- we curvect, the harbor of dito whet it war jnstly said by the Presidect of the Instita. | frst journoy into Darien, in nerth coast,” His narrative in the Bulletin of the Gey to succinct form a fall digest of all surveys and worlay ef this great ship navigation. tion of Civil ‘of London, that he ‘had produced | totalty Sepotaets of the -existence 3) ip Sono erat ing to clety of Paris, 1864, wilt be ether accounts of the countries in question, We give TRIE L, more <atelugibiD tfermation towards ution ofta.s | river until he actually saw afte: made» ‘al ved one who is to follow in bis > next lige iu the onder of ouramumeration i¢ | prokieca, of Vast: Waporiance to ti ma) and | Chica, “when,” he continues, ‘‘findi: same conclusion; that to be derived from it may Below bis ecoount of tos me's important roalen unvler | Paguina; but there Hes between Nicerague and Panama | politieal interes ls of (he-rorld, than hat hitherto been | of water at ‘its mout ana that teroceanic canal ie from ip First, Toe inrperative ‘of lak pro ts ‘Ghetr peapective heads, (n oder that theargnment and | Aavther isthows whick has -beew thought of more than | givew:’’ andof whom Mir R Murchison, ‘Vioe Presiiont | directly from the north, I became convinced that I had | river Savana to il junction with the Lara, and from this | in a ‘concontrated form, on which IT i . once as @ Convenient Mace of tranwt—the Isthinus af than ovoo in this report, is very @rjection for and agains! eas may he faicly seen, The of the Royal tpogeaphical penne re | a1 last found the object of m search, vis, : toa want of efiort. Attempts to crose the isthmus | tionea, taken from Gisborne’s Chiniqui. “hearty wished he mézht suc route co the Atlantic; and ti T immediatel « Marnight, short, apparentiy practical rows of the Ieth- The vest | formation <onceruigg {ais rowie is derived | philamthropic prpject ‘which 80 deept aconded it, and crossed from Cenanes t0:the seashore nt pune d nt obtige Sats te trp: L mes of Derien is praised shove wit others, andat the | from the exaruination made by ihe Cilriqul commision, | civilized uations. © After having AK gp rodospeed have been im; Ie to au - oman by Commoda: rederick Engie, Uni hor, money Spon examination of tl eato esse) ched - Game time (hat the Admiral dclares that that ronte has PLN avy, of whieh Comm Jofforn was tho hydro | San Juex rivers im search of a suttabie route for-en inter. nd ae mona gg epee ‘fone - thags Pot deen eatisfactorily explore: Wenant J, 8t, Clair Mor- | Catedouia bay, notching the barks of the trees as I went the ¢ season is to be sel al at. he still @iven di anthe | pg aphic pugineer, ond : est Li ne see ne oceanic « ana ones a lug deter i. b Bos rat Peonlt of ai! bis inqtiries that “it isto he lathes of | 12, Who fell at Petervbarg, tne terograp! engineer. | aod his Giends, in 1864,d0k np the it | Biong with a machee or cutinas, always alone and un- . the neighborhood of Cals- mak: xploration i ‘ Daren that we pag talook for th» 40’ site ei rs @ harbor of Chirigui as | much owveted, exploration, of the route from the Chepo ded, im! always in the season of the heaviest. rains, | donia bay make use of these ey ‘One of them is or May.” At ane ad ho gc “ er | uilon ef the Commas ter Jeffers | to Golf efdian Blas, Thererulta of this exploration are | * And [hed not the least hesitation in deciding | olevated about -fifty metros ( feet), and te covered | having his retreat cut off by the iakess Great problem of an inter-octenic cane of Capo (pow that that must be the fatare routs for interoveanic wih a luxuriant growth of mahogany, palm, ebony and | of the streame, and the torrents created by tn ae Al the outset of the report Tehuantepec aod Mondgures be “ and adds: “No munication for sbi; v3 of tatéiegt tt dita axbichotion dant rains. At another time be was be to bie of the Cordiliera. Hee Admiral) fing, harbors cau be foond (han those on thy Atlantic n of the route ded. He gaps also of | thirty miles On the noeth there is from ocean to ocean is only The principal ‘The sane writer describes the country on the north of | waist in water; and, ia order to make sure eee excluded from copsideration because they |powaeae Ff + Shepherd's harvor inclu admirable, spa- | course, the passage Concern! the Cordillera as a sh to merit es © practicable rote for a by aos” | Gald'o, im Geilo Dulce, on tue Packie side, tbat it “is | ekvun and deep harbor of San Blan; andon tho souta the | £t. Callen sayers-“'From the eosalore (Port Rasocésy, | water's Ne bis pope suntioned wt tacorvate Weve Geen ae’ the onip localities diacusseé at Jongth are the Lat | fae eee ee ee ot eae an ee igo of ik oe peeks, tue wy gree wed = the Cordillera, a pag nd for this precaction be might never have fount ke fre it quater Fi 1 low tide, Cy pace! veliors are gencraily quoted; and it * @amed three, Nicarsgua Panama and Atrato~ Oreianry Pim 6” tide is izteon (18) feet, I give those | whose highest summit is about 360 fest. Thie Socuarbed thed Alston's cotemsieogshas back; and, in spite of it, he came near loning cue or my ‘a ecrvey; bat T must observe | not quite continnous and unbroken, bat is 4) upon probabilities, not on actaal measurement, and epenl necenn! that chts regalt of the eramication by bis engineer of the | tracsverse valleys, through whioh (he Aginseniqua, | these probabilities are deduced from Gareila's survey, as waieg tos tosses 6 obsoriaat Vasher han cnivance of the hepo. is entirely unexpectsd, and from the statements « Gisborne and others fated undergrowth by steel and Dy fra. (Pages: not secord with the Admiralty charta, But ¢he most | whae highest elevations do not exceed 150 fect, The Bordes Cullen and Airian, there are other high antho- | 18-19.) M Rourdiui’s experience on this point ta - MiraMacea, There has besa 4 thine when the transit from ooran ‘o Lake Nica ‘owsed the isthinus twiee, indelny which seampof great extent, and Giecovore! known gh the Cordilinras, EF h f i i $ i & é f ’ i i Bea end thence wo the Pacific, has ual favor e conviction striking feature af the project, as of M. Gerelia’s, jaa tan- | bare of Lois is two imiles in width, and from | rites who have arded the Iethmus of Dariea as tl nd attention. From Greytown to foe inke the mode of connect. the nel, sitrilar im Ks length ane in other rospects, to the | ite saith poy i pty TE Sask ghoch eeniptibiech ise tieneaommanres ot ose | gua thee meaner Tea wre sveug” ents ted’et es haa been the same in moe! of the plang, ft to great cinwel thraggh Alps et Mont Cents, which if | @ point on the civer Savana, called Cafiasas, which is | Wishes, Admiral Fiiz Koy, who, at the he | darinz, but thay a0 very taba oan ~~ &-- eee on’ jncluded the improvement of the naviguiion of the Mortey dae ™ ou) ball ec! through, ead in which the progress | about twenty miles abovo ita,mouth,’’ last wre bad made a wore catetul and aconrate Fourth and lasily—Snitabto rat oa her ten exe © Juan, where posible, by = ie . menos merely, i tistactory that the period of its completion can No eoqunes evel be moro simple, explic't ant direct | study of Lhe whole subject than any man then jiving,and | for encountering the boxtility morte Ina ben " hy and by.the construction of the and has Jef no ms bo deGnite.y fixed. ‘than the juage ef ns NOONE experienced in the Lydrography | inhabit the Atlantic declv ity. a ven Wee this statement, Admitting It to be uives of the War Department, [ When the tunnel through Mont Conis, and the still | literally correct, we have to go no furthor; for the object e lis route precisely, and kave accord ier one througk Mont *t. Gothard, are Onished and | of our.scarch, the extetence of a practicable route for an noo the geveral map with a brokem | in use, euch undertakings will cease to be regarded with , Was been ulscovered, . | the aversion ove now (ool towards them. map, humbered 9, of the series aj Uriqui commission, it most be observed, however, with regard to Mr. | pended to this rey presenis a line of commun.cat ent and value of | Kelley's survey, that owing to ite being a private aMair | Wiich combines ali the advantages required by ti pense Pepide of the river, were to bo passed by meine of locks will Lightly question, hat said: “A stron, T yl i This is the propor place tu call spec tion to the a Pomaiue on all ove wide that Dacien should | benefits whieh have'veen conferred upon the wo ia OF ye Cy ry Fi mee oil provious explorers, whether thelr labors have beet mse iatied that tue Ls:uimus of | carried on Frys re Neer h siperior No ane, oth carr nm rystematvally ent toan end, or bay for @ Catal sixth proc A seventh, kes er portion of the entire neck | eu short by accident, hostility, ora want of proper equipment. Sapon river to Saline Qe southern part of the State of Nicar ar ft was Gocessarily acsomplithed at th t gineer, It poasoases the indispensable requivite of bar But wo can go further back in our « j I , y r f° ise oF from ti river | and with tho xtinost axpedition, Tp Je | bors of periect secariiy, enfficient depth of water and | incarsiona of the old byocauvers, Mar) Sopenchcnes teotaen Teen Man Os, ia = Bicoya routes have | Ene, without deviating to the right or left, although | largo capacity at boun that om the Pacific side | Sharp, Waler and Davie, woich can be | haa proved the unfitness of men Lute for an tote oreinie OATrefully wurveyed, those terminating @ Brito and xd ce of iron, copper | the survopors wore satiefled that they saw ‘evidences | having a rise of tide @l apts {t to the construction . ~ fr nat commun cation by caus!, hae benefited us by Gan Joan do) ~ { end placinum, * © ral region.” ‘thé | of greater deprenvion tothe weetward of their course: | of building and iring docks, @ cireumstanos the 8 There ace so mavy diMerition aiteniing all thse | plainhare dewctibed as bel tnd seomading. ta] Sad‘inere ean’ be oo. deme. wootaver thal o aeiiverebe | Satna of UhImabpEel be tear eoiennen ) iy game. tne pee ery a Preamp be cata routes. Rod de’ act from their “relative grerite it ® provives of Chiri- | examination, made tnder eveb advauinges as wonld | Cordilieras at a Geprossion at feast thirty feet below any | productive immer of Cona and Fepiritu Saute, portly om | atrempt has conferred a bench ae teaolving 08 Lue pra grecticabig lines for's ebip caval," that I shen! { lot, We have some | pertain to « gevoramen:al mrvey, Would loasen the dif er been reported, and several hundred feet } seconint of these very incursions, were loug sinoe sban- | oruitmua WO ato lo olesteo aud. the errorm we. ye emt! Under ordivary clreamstamees, to . HW Amich, of Panam, @ | quities, an erbape, lead to the discovery of such @ | 'y that hes actanily beep surveyed, or shat bas | dened. We also foliow without diMouity twed rect route | ayohd. this region Ina fow w bet ao much bee beso eaid | ographical Sovloty, Lhave c:tod | route dhrough the vaileye ax would render a rerort to mtg J determined hy trustworthy obserr. qin, of the Spanish oficer, Don Manuel do Milla Santa "ROM Sax NCO. to eune of URAMA OR DAP end written about it by eminent euthoriien that I feoi rites for the conrenien if the | tunnetiing unnessssary. This eubject will be recuined in course of this line is direct, free from obstruc- a, from Caledonia harbor to Fi Prineipe, thence down The remaining line on this part of the Iethmn a» to the ence mi thie region is the general remarks aa! recowmondaiiens with which od exceptionally healthy, while ite out. | the sav the rivér to the barbér of Darien, up tho fayra, | which ascenda tno T: uyra and at or explorer, wi cromses va y to know thats plan tor # sur. [ed epee We prcnen woe dace tive de A variety reumnttances have concurred ta con bronglt vader examination. LY 1 Wilt be conclacder, open Upon cosats where violent storms are | and ag up the Ch jue to the sources of 1 a eenirate public Opinion so1 fn we 1| PAM AMA, - voanad PRANPICARIE ROUTR—THE reTRMCY oF DAREN | rarely Known. The pisinn ou eas elde of the dividing | \pper tributaries, Wwheas Re ervesed to. Lie riehe’ Ya omnes: wy on foot. Mr, Gogorna vefer particularly to tho areldon Thore fs no part of the Ameri¢an isthmus with which rhom rer ouLe ridge are of cary ai and readily penetrated. ihe | (aledonia bay, (Cul PR 192 ¢ am.) readent of New Grane has ree commin cate: fown; to the establisheient or We are co well wequainted as the old ronte of Porio Bello The nex plece Bava ver iwelf would form a part of the canal. And, And lastly, we must nee the teatimony of that very the dive ave ry of a short aud it aerome the Cor, — —— Ravigation of or Obagron to old or new Panama, the established line | of San Miguel ap Qua ly, accepting the partioular siatement of Dr. Cullen | remorkable man, Wiitlam Paterton, ehocarried witi him | diliera at this polit. Accord! to Lis satemen' the a menses ee CoMPeCtion of en | of communication y since | at both of the lina, as fuily reliable, @ ship canal may be cut on this line | in bis settlement at Caledonia narhor ample stores of in- dopreaved to an elevaiion of fAlir-oight Yreludiog that of the present Fronch Emperor, and | twenty three yoars admirebie ti Ory Teapect, au, on ibe © Without locks, aud even Without tanuel, aod yet not sur | formation collected from the Buccaneers, who, during | of tidewater, tho ait Sericaltarel and mineral wealth of the Chentalee re ind to these circumelances may the aa eatablished the i Seemingly made by natare in offering the» water com | once between the mean I eariceticne of Ban Juan and the Jakes, which reduce isthmus to one-tenth of its whole breadth fortored, in diftteulty, bis long raridence, had leisure and opport m oe ey consumed in ite ‘construction, several Moneel® aoe Led with the eurrounsing eet cat [ttn sicee ot the proentetn 0 ook ents of human genius and enterprice in | who made at least one jour imho the interior, | Since the verification of these ertiaaten te abont to n Our Own day. of fea is in «bis papers, | undertaken by competent authority, Ot expe ple, the Mexican Domgue, of which nity yeers jo the far | tosay anything further on this route shan this, that arveys made by the - | tea hetgat of taste sulted to the Construction of dovks for ihe a repaire, ke. Ht he held by many persons that no line of of the two oceans '4 | interoeoanic canal anertte serious attention ualer: it or noihing of © slight ae to present no obstacie to | rome thin Indispenety,* rea! of good ora! har. cana! The dificaities pertain | bora, requiring no arlifie wl mprovemente, except thos jablo by canoe, ou the et, and | two sives of the moustain is only throe miles. atrvetion of A graat colo | pore of * rein: he largest | to ened other, b4 expectations have ber . er to the elim to the @levation, the nature of | for tho ordinary conveniepees of commerce, such a in ite actual state it Is audoubtedly one bing mind of Pat had contemy ated the Toth. Out by F Sehemen have been forme, ipefeding ertens! “soit and the rupply of water. wharves and docks. Centar Sy Wt will add very much to | of the most gigantic op ah ae ne egh ggg ealf Bh} hdl gp pewter eolightoned vensia ee | sort nh oad thet ity alo, rogatic at toneth Tee ene senemnes that never have reactor The harbor ch would form the termint of the dihenities aod embarrage, 06Ot*, a8 well as to the with adneration when wo con | ftiteemen aad poiill mists of the present time. aterde: A safeey by the eovernment wi be late Admiral Fitz Roy, jo the rat pape eapal are, on the Atiantie ake Navy Ray, and on tho Pa of thie great enterprise, 0 mix with it any dow' the Ho originated the project of wottitag | bed r (6 present private enterprise Of iaty, Liroried We the Royal Géographical bins of America, entered into p carefal pxainination @ tue ne ong hee, and meturely congidered elite wid4 the bay of Veen dol Mon Nave Pay (® an tneccore auch apd the berber @ We know that | ful questions of harbor improve,went. 9 at certain periods of | The greaiomt intersst baw alytaye centered im this eeifie ie eitogewber | parueular ime on other eccounk® The tirst settig- lee raty ber foot should make any tw fot nt overies-or not, THe ATTATO nd For mony years ysploraiions hays, from Wung 9 NE