ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. 



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and it would unite the two seas in so complete 

 a manner as to render disembarkation on either 

 coast unnecessary. 



I now come to the fourth project, which is 

 through the 



Isthmus of Panama. 



For a ship canal this would never answer; 

 but it presents great facilities for effecting the 

 transfer of merchandise by a river and canal 

 sufficiently deep for steam-boats, at a compara- 

 tively trifling expense, between the two seas. 



In the rainy season the Chagres would be 

 navigable for steam-boats up to Cruces. To 

 render it, however, always navigable up to its 

 junction with the Obispo, below Cruces, it 

 would only be necessary to erect a few wears 

 at certain places. 



Lloyd seems to have turned his attention 

 more to the practicability of a railroad along 

 the level country between the mouth of the 

 Trinidad and the town or river of Chorrera; 

 and no doubt a railroad from thence, or from 



