Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the practicability of a shipcanal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the way of the isthmus ... the direction of the secretary of the navy.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781425513481
Subjects: History / United States / General
First sentence: At 11 a. m., of the 10th of October, 1870, the Tehauntepec and Nicaragua Surveying Expedition sailed from the city of Washington, bound for Mexico, its object being to determine, in the most absolute manner, if it was practicable to construct a ship-canal across the Isthmus of Tehauntepec.