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present contemplated. This is clearly exhibited by the follow- 
ing table, showing the respective distances from England, New 
York, and New Orleans, to the port of San Francisco, in Cali- 
fornia, by the routes of Panama, Nicaragua, and Tehuantepec, 
compared with the voyages from the same places round Cape 
Horn, and showing the distances each would respectively save 
by traversing the American Isthmus. 
Voyage to San Francisco, 
in California. 
Round 
Cape Horn. 
Via 
Panama. 
Via 
Nicaragua. 
1 
Via 
Tehuantepec. 
From England (depart- \ 
ure from the Lizard ) ) 
Nau. Miles. 
13,624 
14,194 
14,814 
Nau. Miles. 
7502 
4992 
4505 
Nau. Miles. 
1041 
4531 
3761 
Nau. Miles. 
6671 
3804 
2704 
Distance 
saved via 
Panama. 
Distance 
saved via 
Nicaragua. 
Distanco 
saved via 
Tehuantepec. 
M by New Orleans . . . 
Nau. Miles. 
6122 
9202 
9809 
Nau. Miles. 
6583 
9663 
10,547 
Nau. Miles. 
6953 
10,390 
11,610 
These figures cannot be disputed : they are, indeed, of that 
class which are not " figures of speech." It is therefore plain 
that the superiority of Tehuantepec over all other routes is im- 
measurably great ; and (considering the identity of conditions 
and the limited distance between Panama and Nicaragua) we 
may, in a discussion of relative advantages, regard them as one 
and the same point. The geographical position of the Tehuan- 
tepec Isthmus would at once secure to it the whole of the vast 
trade and emigration which have sprung up between the Atlan- 
tic portion of the American Republic and the new State of 
California on the Pacific — a trade which, when we consider the 
short time that has elapsed since our acquisition of that terri- 
tory, and the still shorter time that has intervened since the 
discovery of the gold mines within its bosom, is unequalled in 
the history of commercial intercourse. This trade and emigra- 
tion will increase from year to year, as long as the gold deposits 
