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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Succinct View of the Importance and Practicability of Forming a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama, by H. R. Hill This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org 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 Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FORMING A SHIP CANAL *** Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Richard J. Shiffer and The Philatelic Digital Library Project at http://www.tpdlp.net and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) [Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error is noted at the end of this ebook.] 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
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