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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onthe length of his voyage and the meagerness of his returns. Lethim calculate the difference of insurance, interest, and outlaybetween six months and forty days on a voyage to the Indias.Let him look at the expenses of our naval fleet, and see howmuch it costs to send stores around the southern capes to thePacific. Let him glance at the prices current of California, andcompare the cost with the consumption of coal. Let him inves-tigate the demand at home and abroad for valuable woods, trop-ical fruits and luxuries. Let him ask the Australian emigrantwhich route he prefers, the Cape of Good Hope or the Isthmus.Let him examine the map, and figure out the difference betweengoing around and across the world. Let him consider well theinfluences of climate, and reconcile if he can, the discrepanciesbetween the number who have sailed to and from California viaPanama and Nicaragua, and those who have reached their des-tination. Perhaps his question then, will be satisfactorily an-swered. 10
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