Word: panama
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There were four routes proposed for the canal-the southern route; the route by Panama; the ship railway, and the canal through lake Nicaragua. It was found that the southern route would require a tunnel to be drilled through solid rock, high enough to allow there lower masts of a ship to pass under. This trunnel would have been very expensive, and it was also found that the expense that would have to be increased in sending down the topmast of vessels would offset the advantage gained by the canal, so the scheme was a bandoned. The plan...
...source of great disappointment to Mr. Agassiz that he was unable to join the ship "Albatross" of the U. S. Fish Commission and investigate the fauna of the western coast of Panama, as he had previously that of the eastern coast. The commander of the "Albatross" was kind enough to allow Dr. Agassiz to avail himself of a large part of the ship's collection so that he might compare the fauna of the western and eastern coasts of the Isthmus...
Question: "Resolved, that the United States should complete and control the Panama canal...
Question: "Resolved, that the United States should complete and control the Panama canal...
...such construction, the Nicaragua route possesses great advantages over the Panama route in; (a) ease and economy of construction; (b) natural approaches; (c) distance saved, etc.- North Am. Rev., vol. 132, 107; Ninteenth Century...