THE PERRY GRANT, 



For the purpose of encouraging immigration, and through 

 that bringing about the development of the great natural 

 resources of Honduras, the government of that republic has sold 

 to the AMERICAN HONDURAS COMPANY a grant of land consisting 

 of each alternate tract or section of land one ruyriamete" or 

 6fVffViF English miles square, within the following boundaries, viz. : 

 Beginning at a point in the middle of the deepest part of the 

 channel connecting Caratasca lagoon with the Caribbean sea, and 

 extending thence in a northwesterly and a westerly direction 

 along the coast of said sea to the eighty-fifth (85) degree of longi- 

 tude west from Greenwich ; thence southward along the line of 

 said eighty-fifth (85) degree to the place of its intersection or 

 crossing of the fifteenth (15) degree of latitude north from the 

 equator ; thence eastward along the line of said fifteenth (15) 

 degree of latitude to the middle of the channel or bed of the river 

 Guaranta ; thence along the middle of the channel of said river 

 and of any lagoon or lagoons, bay or estuaries to the place where 

 the waters of said river Guaranta join those of Caratasca lagoon ; 

 and thence along the middle of the deepest channel in said Cara 

 tasca lagoon to the place of beginning. 



The northwestern corner of this grant is 1,800 miles south of 

 Chicago, in longitude 8 west from Washington, and about 975 

 miles south by east from New Orleans. The Gulf stream touches 

 the grant and thence flows westward and northward, huriying 

 vessels on their way from Central America to the markets of 

 our Atlantic seaboard and of Europe. Vessels can have the help 

 of this ocean current most of the way from Honduras to Europe, 

 and back again through peaceful seas. Steamers make the run 

 to New Orleans or to Mobile in three to four days, and to New 

 York in seven or eight days. 



The grant extends from the Caribbean sea southward nearly 

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