EAILWAY PEOJECTS. 



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assured that the communication between North and South would soon become still 

 more frequent and rapid. 



Nor is this all : although the sinuous form of the Central American isthmuses, 

 their oblique disposition to the meridian, and the easy communications by water 



Yi<r. 17. — Zones op Distances between London oe Paris and South Ameeica. 



Scale 1 : 60,000,000. 





100° 



West or Greenwich 



20° 



Distances by time. 



15 Days. 15 to 20 



20 to 25 

 Days. 



25 to 30 30 Days to 2 Months 



Days. 2 Months. and upwards. 



Regular steam service. Railways. Projected Andean line. 

 1,240 Miles. 



along both shores render absolutely useless a longitudinal railway between the 

 A- olcanic plateaux of Guatemala and the Colombian forests of the Atrato valley, the 

 United States Government has given countenance to the project of such a trunk 



