S.—All the surveys 1890. — The next step was that have been made for a taken in 1885, when Mr. a] eanal have realized the ne- Menocal was directed by the cessity of creating terminal government to make a re-ex- harbors at each seaboard. amination of the work, and On the Pacific the canal ter-… … tried in engineering practice. gineering force was put in the At Greytown, however, as a field between the years 1887 5,350 FEET, IN THE DISTANCE. study of the accompanying and 1890, and in the latter maps will show, the problem year a report was presented original and daring proposal the summit…
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