The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-26

nent in all America was in THIS vicinity, and tho
IN 81 the sy &
country that tho buccaneers made fsausnt incursons
upcs the original Spanish sstors VINO had opened and
ssrto The sstory or The buccaneers furnishes Us with
msny Interesting accounts Of their incursons INTO this
net fun snosgh to be traced on any modern map 1t IL
srfncient merely 70 refer 70 them. II was, no doubt
Induced &c setts a Darien With Mis- scotch colony he
derived tho information on which be acted 10 part from
With the urvyn ns, ~ pts
tors Of the .sIndian and African Company" cited
BY Dalryrnple In his Memoirs q Great Britain vol. 2
places No mines workedor looked after that yield
as low a. half ounce per day 20 tho aborer. Often
woTsse BY AZ hoassnd nes I - ''''' = 80 :
In our own Hmc this line accommodation has
more Intention ate tina. any Gns Ssp, y, pa
and the United states have each undertaken its erplora
lion with singular want OF success. One Envlisn sur
veyor Biz Osborne entered the country from Caledonia
bay and after hing the summt OF the Cofdliera,
turned back. Captain Prcvos Of the royal navy, led
the Gulf OF San Miguel 70 the head OF navigation,
aud thence cut his way throrEh the woods and sw,ps
bae ~ ssys in The oo.l rerot Of bs nroceeeings
lndor date OF January4 1851 Although finding
selves in the centre Of tue cordllicras and bs'eva
having already exceeded tho nits OF my stay, II be-
my duty rcjoin the ship without delay sti feel
~ We Should evsntuaiiy have rrrnea The xtlsutic
shares ih easily by following one or the several
hlie forming certain passases 10 the sea y
TIE expedition d Strain though II called out remark
abe display Of courage and endurance under the most
thosc Of Osborne and Prcvoet.
have appended = map, numbered 8, Of the Joint
exploration Of the Two English gentlemen here
toned, taken from Gisborne's report 10 tho Royal
Geographical Society. IL win be perceived that the
routee Of these two gentlemen Join 10 each ether
Sections Of both tracks arc given on the map.
Tbs only person In our time who claims 70 have
bags is Dr. Cullen. Dr. Cullen ssys that on his
nrst journey into Derien, In 1919. he
totally ignorant Of u. sn.tenc. q The sssana
Chcs, "when, he continues "hnd,ng ths great depth
o. water AZ US mouth, and that y flowed almost
Of last found the object or search viz feasible
route 60 tho Atlantic; and thereupon immed ateiy
oendsd IT, and crossed fre Canasas 10 the seashore nj
Port Escocts and back and subsequently, In 1850 aud
also 1884, crossed and rccroSed al several times aud nv
several tracks the route fro ssvanA 10 Port Escocs ana
Caledonia bay notching the bsrs Of ,s trees as went
along with usdciee cutass always alone and IN
AIDED AM always - the season q me hesyes. rains
that that must be the future route for interoccanc
nunicAton for ships
course the passage OF the Cordiera Concerning this
Tr. Cullen says" From the seashore port Escoces)
r.agc Of hills, which runs parallel 10 the coast and
whose highest summit Is about $50 fest THE ridge ls
not quite continuous and unbroscn but divided BY
Agkiomaie and other rivers have thor course, and
wh0e highest elevations do not exceed $50 feet Ths
haze OF tbis ridge 10 only two TALES In width, aud from
It's saith aide svel plain extends for thirteen mes
poiat on the Siver Savanna, called Canasas which Is
about twenty mas above NJ. mouth
No sngsags cout be more simple, expllct add direct
than the language q this statement Admitting VI 70 be
literally correct have 10 go further: for the object
OF sarch, the existence OF practicable route an
inieroces mic ship canal, has been discovered.
Dr. Cuilcns map numbered Q, OF tho series ap.
pended 70 this report, presents line OF cation
which combines all the advantages required By tho
gfeer II possesses the Indispensable requisite Of har
bors OF perfect security. rufccnt depth OF
LARGO csracitT At both termnihat the Pacific eide
having so cf tide which adapts II % the construction
Of building AMI repairing docks, circumstance the
vAlus ~ which cannot be ever estimated IL cuts tho
Corheas az depression NJ least thirty feet below any
that has been reported and several hundred feet
below aoy that haa actually been surveyed shat hes
been approximately determined ny trustworthy observ-
The OF this line " disect free from obsc-
lois open upon coasts where violent storms are
rarely known. The plains each side OF tho dividing
ridge Of easy slope and readily penetrated. The
savanna Itself would form part OF the canal And,
Qua ", accepting the particular statement OF DR. Crllen
A. fully reabe, ship canal may be cut this line
without locks aud even without tnnnc add yet not
pass either 10 dhcilty 10 labor, ia the amount OF
other monuments % human genius and enterprise n
past times and n our own day.
THUS, for example, the Mexican Daarue OF which
Humboldt says I'm IT, actual state a IL Undoubtedly
Of the most gigantic hydraulic operations executed
hv man. We nliod with Animation when con-
tider the~ nature Of tho ground and the enormous
lre7tsb, depib and l0ngth of the aperture.
" the rnt we're nnet nth water 70 che
depth q ten metres az feer the largest