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Title: A Succinct View of the Importance and Practicability of Forming a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama

Author: H. R. Hill

Release Date: June 29, 2009 [EBook #29269]

Language: English

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A

SUCCINCT VIEW

OF THE

IMPORTANCE AND PRACTICABILITY

OF FORMING

A SHIP CANAL

ACROSS THE

ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.

By H. R. HILL.

_LONDON:_

WM. H. ALLEN, & CO.,

7, LEADENHALL-STREET.

1845.

W. LEWIS AND SON, PRINTERS, 21, FINCH-LANE, LONDON.

ADVERTISEMENT.

The following observations were thrown together as the result of
communications with several gentlemen locally acquainted with the
Isthmus of Panama, and who expressed to the writer their astonishment,
that amidst the numerous undertakings, of more or less utility, which
science has realised in our time, one so important to the whole
commercial world, so easy of accomplishment, and so certain to be
productive of ample remuneration to the undertakers, as a Ship Canal
through that Isthmus, had not been taken up. The idle objection, that
if practicable it would not have been left unattempted for the last
three hundred years, they considered, would have no weight in an age
in which we have seen accomplished works that in our fathers' time,
nay, even within our own memory, it would have been considered madness
to propose,--witness steam-navigation and railways. It