...canal, the greater advantages, and offers fewer difficulties from 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 judgement to be formed of their relative merits." To...

...inter-oceanic ship canal communication." In 1876 they reported as follows: "After a long, careful and minute study of the several surveys of the various routes across the continent, we unanimously report that the route known as the Nicaragua possesses, both for construction and maintenance...