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Geological Conference. Papers: Notes on the Panama Canal. Mr. R. DeCWard.--Etcheminian Fauna of eastern Massachusetts. Mr. A. W. Grabau. Rotch Building...
General references: Annals of the Amer. Acad. of Pol. and Social Science, Articles by Keasby, Miller and Johnson, February, 1896, pp. 1-48. Journal of Franklin Institute, vol. 134, pp. 1 and 109 (July and August, 1992); Rodrigues Panama Canal, 173-232; North Amer. Rev., vol. 156, p. 195 (Feb. 1893) vol. 132, p. 107 (Feb. 1881); Forum, vol. IX, 1 (March, 1891); XII, 714-728 (Feb. 1892); House Reports, 50 Cong., 2 Sess. III, No. No. 4167; Senate Reports, 51 Cong. 2 Sess., I, No. 1944, and 53 Cong., 2 Sess...
...United States would be unwise.- (a) Labor and cost would be excessive: Springfield Rep., Mar. 13, 1896, Report of the Ludlow Committee.- (1) The estimated cost is $135,000 000.- (b) The canal would not pay expenses: Forum for March, p. 21, ff.- (1) Competition of the Panama Canal.- (2) Competition of thirteen railroad lines.- (3) The smallness of the traffic would raise the toll to a height which would be prohibitory.- (c) The canal would be disadvantageous to the United States in time of war: S. Webster in Harper's Mag., vol. 87, p. 608, (Sept...
...steamer is met at Mollendo, Peru. The telescope will be shipped on the "Condor" of the Merchants Line around South America through the Straits of Magellan to Peru. It is sent this roundabout way to avoid the handling of the lenses by inexperienced hands at the Isthmus of Panama. From Mollendo the instrument will be taken by rail about 75 miles inland to Arequipa. The chief difficulty will be met there in transferring the heavy machinery to the observatory about three miles away, as the roads are very poor and the means of transportation even worse...
...TROTTER and J. C. ROWE.Best general references: Treaties and Conventions, p. 440; "The Nicaragua Canal," (published by the company); Cleveland's message, Dec. 8, 1885; Rodrigue's Panama Canal, 213 - 220; Nation, XXXIX, 516 (Dec. 18, 1884), 538; Sat. Rev., LVIII, 784 (Dec. 20, 1884); Hall's International Law, 282, 290 - 8; For. Rel., 1881, pp. 549, 563, and 1882, pp. 302 - 14; Chautauquan, XIII, 409 (July...