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SOUTH AMEIIICA— THE ANDES REGIONS. 



Doubtless a line running from Algiers to Lake Chad, and continued south- 

 wards to the Ubanghi and the Congo, would at some future time possess an un- 

 deniable value in developing and utilising the still untouched resources of those 

 regions. But the lines already begun at Philippeville, Algiers, and Oran would, 

 if continued south-westwards to Dakar, present the advantage of not only con- 

 necting Algeria and Senegal in a single commercial and political zone, but, as has 

 already been pointed out by the engineers, would also serve to swell the great 

 stream of international traffic between Europe and South America. Swift-sailing 



Fig. 3. — FUTUEE EOUTES BETWEEN PaeIS AND BuENOS AtEES. 

 Scale 1 : 110,000,000. 



Railways. 



Projected Railways. 

 ^.^^^— ^ 1,240 Miles. 



Steamers. 



liners, such as those now plying between Liverpool and New York, could cross 

 the Atlantic between Dakar and the Brazilian ports of Natal and Pernambuco in 

 less than three days ; and on this short route at one cf the narrowest parts of the 

 ocean, passengers woxxld have the pleasure of sighting land twice, at the islands 

 of Sao Paulo and Fernando Noronha. The great Transatlantic line connecting 

 the three continents might also be continued by a coast railway from Pernambuco 

 to Buenos Ayres, with branches ramifying into the interior of the continent. By 

 this route, at the present speed of the most powerful engines, the traveller might 



