Ancient and modern engineering and the Isthmian canal (1903)
Burr, William H. (William Hubert), 1851-1934 · New York, J. Wiley & Sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 432
406 THE NICARAGUA ROUTE FOR A SHIP-CANAL. town into which ships drawing as much as 30 feet found ready entrance, and within which was afforded a well-protected an- chorage. As early as that date, however, a point of land or sand-pit was already pushing its way northward in consequence of the… … Scene on the San Juan River. For many years that entrance has been entirely closed, and now what was once the protected harbor of Greytown is a shallow body of water, completely closed, and known as the Greytown Lagoon. There is a narrow, circuitous, and shallow channel leading from it out to an…
Civil engineering · Canals, Interoceanic
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