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" It 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 of the other routes shown to be practicable by surveys sufficiently... "
Science - Page 435
1884
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The Maritime Canal of Suez: From Its Inauguration, November 17, 1869, to the ...

Joseph Everett Nourse - 1884 - 202 pages
..." 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 other of the routes shown to be practicable by surveys sufficiently in detail to enable a jndgment...
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The Panama Canal: Its History, Its Political Aspects, and Financial Difficulties

José Carlos Rodrigues - 1885 - 268 pages
...canal, greater advantages, and offers fewer difficulties,^rom engineering, commercial or economical 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...
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The Panama Canal: Its History, Its Political Aspects, and Financial Difficulties

José Carlos Rodrigues - 1885 - 298 pages
...gave its decision in a careful report, according to which they, "after a long, careful, and minute study of the several surveys of the various routes across the continent, unanimously report— (1) That the route known as the Nicaragua route .... possesses, both for construction...
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Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica (ninth Edition): A ..., Volume 4

1889 - 932 pages
...construction and maintenance of_a canal greater advantages, and offers fewer difficulties from engineerinjr, 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." The...
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The Old Navy and the New

Daniel Ammen - 1891 - 582 pages
...route' possesses, both for the construction and maintenance of a canal, greater advantages, and offers fewer difficulties from engineering, commercial, and...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...
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The Inter-oceanic Canal of Nicaragua: Its History, Physical Condition, Plans ...

Nicaragua Canal Construction Company - 1891 - 200 pages
...near the Isthmus connecting North and South America, have the honor, after a long, careful and minute study of the several surveys of the various routes across the continent, unanimously to report: That the route, known as the " Nicaragua Route," beginning on the Atlantic side...
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Hand Book of Nicaragua

Bureau of the American Republics (Washington, D.C.) - 1892 - 204 pages
...near the isthmus connecting North and South America, have the honor, after a long, careful, and minute study of the several surveys of the various routes across the continent, unanimously to report: That the route known as the "Nicaragua route," beginning on the Atlantic side...
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Nicaragua a Handbook

International Bureau of the American Republics - 1892 - 224 pages
...near the isthmus connecting North and South America, have the honor, after a long, careful, and minute study of the several surveys of the various routes across the continent, unanimously to report: That the route known as the "Nicaragua route," beginning on the Atlantic side...
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The Nicaragua Canal: The Gateway Between the Oceans

William Lawrence Merry - 1895 - 116 pages
...near the isthmus connecting North and South America, have the honor, after a long, careful, and minute study of the several surveys of the various routes across the continent, unanimonsly to report : That the route known as the " Nicaragua Route " beginning on the Atlantic side...
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The Key of the Pacific: The Nicaragua Canal

Archibald Ross Colquhoun - 1895 - 508 pages
...It 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 of the other routes shown to be practicable by surveys sufficiently in detail to enable a judgment...
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