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route selected for the Northern Railroad, we had been 
over the track of several of the other paper railroads 
and on our map — that inseparable companion_we 
sketched the roads. Here is the map we made, with 
several additions of a later date, — a map which shows 
fairly enough what can, and in time probably will, be 
done to open the country. First we discussed a road 
from Livingston to Coban, to open the coffee region; 
and as we were fresh from the very route, we tackled 
the problem unhesitatingly. The road, we decided, 
should run up the coast towards Cocali, turn through the 
forest six miles to Chocon, crossing the Chocon River on 
a single span, then over the smaller Rio Cienega and along 
the north shore of the Lago de Izabal, then a little to the 
northward of the Rio Polochic, bridging the Cahabon 
near the limestone ledges east of Pansos, thence through 
Teleman, and by nearly the cart-road route to Coban. Per¬ 
haps a hundred and twenty-five or thirty miles, in all, of 
