PAPAGAYO. 



237 



operation^ to overcome the falls of the river 

 San Juan de Nicaragua ; but, notwithstanding 

 these falls, vessels of two tons navigate this 

 river, from the town of Granada, on the lake 

 Nicaragua, to San Juan. 



The junction between the two lakes must be 

 effected by a canal. The distance, as stated in 

 the Modern Traveller,^^ is twenty miles be- 

 tween the lakes. 



If this magnificent plan be practicable, of 

 which there seems little doubt, the importance 

 of the result would fully compensate all pecu- 

 niary loss in the completion of it. 



The next of these two lines commences at 

 the same point on the Atlantic coast, namely, 

 St. Juan, but shortens considerably the distance 

 to the Pacific, by passing through a spaceof 29,880 

 English yards, or fifteen geographical miles, 

 between the lake of Nicaragua and the gulf of 

 Papagayo. 



A Spanish MS. in the archives at Guatemala, 

 states that Don Manuel Galisteo surveyed this 



