Identifier: isthmusoftehuant00will (find matches)
Title: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec : being the results of a survey for a railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, made by the scientific commission under the direction of Major J.G. Barnard ... : with a résumé of the geology, climate, local geography, productive industry, fauna and flora, of that region : illustrated with numerous maps and engravings
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Williams, John Jay, 1818-1904 Tehuantepec Railroad Company United States Naval Observatory, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Company ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Railroad Company. The bay of La Ventosa, situated on the southern coast ofthe Isthmus of Tehuantepec, at twelve miles distance, in a S. E.direction from the town of that name, is formed by the PacificOcean; and lies between 16° 11 36 and 16° 12 49 north lati-tude, and 95° 13 26, and 95° 15 52 longitude west fromGreenwich. Its western extremity is formed by the Cerro Morro, anisolated rock of oblong shape, rounded at the summit, about 150feet high and 2600 in circumference; and a little more to thesouth by a pointed rock, separated from the former by aninterval filled in with sand, and forming an angular projectioninto the sea, known under the denomination of the Point of theMorro. On the west, the Point of the Morro is contiguous, by its base,to an uninterrupted series of rocky hills, lining the beach andcovering an extent of 6000 feet. They cut perpendicularly theflank and rear of an agglomeration of moderate heights, some-what rugged and precipitous at their summits, and forming
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PACIFIC PORTS. 105 together a thick cluster of granitoidal structure, disposed instrata, wherein feldspath and amphibole are predominant. Itis the last link of that chain which, detaching itself at the north-west from the Cordillera of Oaxaca, descends by an irregularseries of decreasing heights, passes to the north of Huamelula,turning it at the southeast, and terminates at the Pacific Ocean,where it separates the bay of La Yentosa from the bay of SalinaCruz. The sandy strand of La Yentosa commences at the foot of thelateral portion of the Cerro Morro, facing the east, and describesfrom the south to the northeast an arc nearly two miles and ahalf in length; then takes an easterly and almost rectilineardirection, but drawing a little towards the south, extends onabout six miles further, where it runs into the sea: after whichit turns back again abruptly and inclines towards the north,though trending all the while in an easterly direction. From the summit of the Cerro Morro looking tow

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