 | David Urquhart - Canada - 1839 - 668 pages
...of Darien with the greatest facility and secrecy ; by entrenching themselves upon any one point they could stop the passage ; they would have a long line...affording protection, would only invite attack. Egypt present* the exact counterpart. In case of war your Indian traffic would no longer by having to doable... | |
 | David Urquhart - History - 1843 - 536 pages
...of Darien with the greatest facility and secrecy ; by entrenching themselves upon any one point they could stop the passage ; they would have a long line...war your Indian traffic would no longer by having to doable the THE CANAL OF SUEZ. 435 Cape, be exposed either to Prance, or the United States. As regards... | |
 | David Urquhart - Great Britain - 1843 - 532 pages
...and secrecy ; by entrenching themselves upon any one point they could stop the passage ; they woidd have a long line to operate upon, strong positions...war your Indian traffic would no longer by having to doable the THE CANAL OF SUEZ. 433 Cnpe, be exposed either to Frnnce, or the United States. At regards... | |
 | George Lewis (of Ormiston.) - Canada - 1845 - 448 pages
...souls, employing 100 large steamers in its trade, by which it has a river navigation stretching towards the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on the other. The sight of any city, after steaming five days through endless forests, would have been agreeable;... | |
 | Clement Moore Butler, United States. Congress. Senate - Bible - 1850 - 304 pages
...or later absorb the hardier sons of the North, is to take too contracted a view of the subject. With the Pacific on the one side and the Atlantic on the other — we seem to hold the nations in our hands. With one arm on Europe and the other on Asia, it is for... | |
 | David Urquhart - Europe - 1853 - 530 pages
...of Darien with the greatest facility and secrecy ; by entrenching themselves upon any one point they could stop the passage ; they would have a long line...extremities, instead. of affording protection, would onhi invite attack. Egypt presents the exact counterpart. In case of war your Indian traffic would... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1853 - 646 pages
...terminate? Not on some great plain which has been formed for their reception, but in two great oceans, the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on the other. The figure explains the true interests of the country, in the inseparable union and necessary dependence... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1853 - 804 pages
...Mississippi and its mighty tributaries, covering 146,000 square miles from the Andes to the distant shores of the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on the other. Nor is Africa without a share of the combustible treasure, as the peninsula of Aden, and the adjacent... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1853 - 644 pages
...terminate? Not on some great plain which has been formed for their reception, but in two great oceans, the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on the other. The figure explains the true interests of the country, in the inseparable union and necessary dependence... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1853 - 648 pages
...terminate? Not on some great plain which lias been formed for their reception, but in two great oceans, the Pacific on the one side, and the Atlantic on the other. The figure explains the true interests of the country, in the inseparable union and necessary dependence... | |
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Cabinet — the relative exposure of the two channels in case of war to a coup de main. Any European or Transatlantic enemy of England might send an expedition, to the Isthmus of Darien with the greatest facility and secrecy ; by entrenching themselves... 
