The Golden Caribbean: A Winter Visit to the Republics of Colombia, Costa Rica, Spanish Honduras, Belize and the Spanish Main Via Boston and New Orleans; Written and Illustrated by H. R. BlaneyLee and Shepard, 1900 - 116 páginas |
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The Golden Caribbean: A Winter Visit to the Republics of Colombia, Costa ... Henry Robertson Blaney Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
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Página 80 - ... an area nearly equal to that comprised in the combined territories of the States of Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. In shape, it resembles an isosceles triangle, the base of which is the Caribbean coast and the apex the cone of the volcano of Cosigiiina, on the bay of Fonseca. The boundary between Nicaragua and Costa Rica was long in dispute, but was defined by a treaty between the two Republics, which was concluded on April 15, 1858. The claim having been made by Nicaragua...
Página 54 - ... trees are usually planted from 12 to 15 feet apart in the form of squares, and where irrigation is required, trenches are dug between to admit the water passing through them as often as it is necessary. In places where the rain is abundant, or where the soil is damp, the bananas grow best. It is generally at the end of nine months -that the plants mature, and after that time the fruit can be gathered every week in the year, provided the plantation has been well kept and has had a good start....
Página 81 - ... port of Gracias a Dios was also in former times an excellent harbor, but now has scarcely 15 feet of water at the deepest place. Vessels have to cast anchor at some distance outside the bar, and therefore the landing of passengers and merchandise is difficult, and in some cases attended with danger. In consequence of the great development of the trade in bananas and other tropical fruits, and the establishment of regular lines of steamers from the United States, Bluefields is assuming a position...
Página 83 - The summit level commences iz$ miles from the Atlantic and extends to within 3$ miles of the Pacific. The summit reach will, therefore, be 153$ miles long. For 9$ miles from the inner harbor at San Juan del Norte, the canal extends southwesterly across the lowlands of the coast to the foothills of the Cordillera, known as the Eastern Divide, where is located the first of the three eastern locks. Up to this point, the formation through which the canal is to be cut is entirely alluvial and will be...
Página 84 - Carlos debouches into the Rio San Juan a few miles above Ochoa. The hills bounding its valley on the east are not continuous at the proposed water level, and several embankments of inconsiderable height will be required to retain the waters backed up in the San Juan. Dredging in Lake Nicaragua to an average depth of 10 feet in soft mud bottom, width 150 feet, for 14 miles from the shore, will secure a navigable channel of 30 feet to deep water. From this point, the course of the canal is across the...
Página 84 - ... rock excavation. About 5^ miles farther on, near La Flor, are located locks Nos. 4 and 5 and a large dam which impounds the waters of the Tola Basin. These locks terminate the summit level of the canal. They are close together, and will have a lift of 42^ feet each. Lock No. 6, about...
Página 83 - ... progressed slowly, but steadily, until its recent suspension for lack of funds, demonstrating, step by step, the correctness of the theories and plans of the projectors of the enterprise. The following is a concise description of the work proposed : San Juan del Norte, or Greytown, on the Atlantic, and Brito, on the Pacific, are the termini of the canal. Its length from port to port is 169^ miles, of which 26% will be excavated channel and 142^ miles is lakes, rivers, and basins. The summit level...
Página 82 - Gamez, dairy farms in considerable numbers have been established in the neighborood of the principal cities and towns of the Republic, and are doing well. Chapter VI. THE INTEROCEANIC CANAL,.' While the question of interoceanic communication across the American Isthmus has been continually presented to the attention of the civilized world, with more or less persistency, since the days of Columbus, and while the route by way of the San Juan River and Lake Nicaragua has always been among those which...
Página 82 - ... large dimensions;" and what is very significant of his opinion as to the comparative advantages of these two routes is that, in his illustration of the advantages to commerce of a trans-isthmian canal, he uses the Nicaraguan route as the standard of his comparisons and the premise of his arguments. Though more recent and more exact information has not fully corroborated all of his opinions, it has fully confirmed all that he said or implied concerning the Nicaraguan route. A few years after the...
Página 76 - ... vessels that went there to load with the dyewood, supplied good material for piratical ventures. The cutters were generally a rough, drunken crew, some of them having been pirates at different times and most of them sailors. It was here that Capt. Ned Low of Boston, began his career as a pirate. for a good Number of Logwood Trees: and then build a Hut near them where they live during the Time they are cutting. When they have cut down the Tree, they Log it, and Chip it, which is cutting off the...