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قراءة كتاب A Succinct View of the Importance and Practicability of Forming a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama
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A Succinct View of the Importance and Practicability of Forming a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama
approximate in magnitude the Canal now projected), were formed at a much less expense per mile than has been allowed in this estimate.
[11] Probably the Farfan.
[12] Malcolm MacGregor, Esq.
[13] The Canal of Languedoc is at its highest point 600 feet above the level of the sea.—M'Culloch's Commercial Dict., Art. Canals.
[14] It may be possible to reconcile the apparent contradiction between the fact here stated by M. Morel, and the report of M. Garella, by mentioning that the latter suggests the propriety of carrying the Canal over a hill 120 yards high, and thus shortening its length, rather than to adopt M. Morel's line of survey along the flat and low lands, which is the longest of the two.
THE END.
W. LEWIS AND SON, PRINTERS, 21, FINCH-LANE, LONDON.

