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... connects North and South America , and especially to the interoceanic communications , should the same prove practicable , whether by canal or railway , which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama .
... connects North and South America , and especially to the interoceanic communications , should the same prove practicable , whether by canal or railway , which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The United States and Latin America |
| Author | John Holladay Latané |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Page, 1920 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2005 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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