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... Costa Rica and Nicar- agua - Costa Rican boundary question - Limits of Mosquito - - reservation Ports on Atlantic and Pacific coasts - CONTENTS . xi.
... Costa Rica and Nicar- agua - Costa Rican boundary question - Limits of Mosquito - - reservation Ports on Atlantic and Pacific coasts - CONTENTS . xi.
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... Costa Rica to the Nicar- agua Canal Association 386-407 VI . U.S. Charter of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua . · 408-412 VII . Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers • 413-418 VIII . Senate Bill . S. 1481 • House of ...
... Costa Rica to the Nicar- agua Canal Association 386-407 VI . U.S. Charter of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua . · 408-412 VII . Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers • 413-418 VIII . Senate Bill . S. 1481 • House of ...
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... COSTA RICA . 123 THE AQUADOR 179 THE WATER VENDER 181 THE SIESTA . 185 UNDER THE EYES OF THE DUENNA THE SEÑORITA . NICARAGUAN BELLES NATIVE WOMAN THE ARRIERO MARKET SCENE A POTTERY VENDER TRANSPORT BEFORE THE RAILWAY IN CENTRAL AMERICA ...
... COSTA RICA . 123 THE AQUADOR 179 THE WATER VENDER 181 THE SIESTA . 185 UNDER THE EYES OF THE DUENNA THE SEÑORITA . NICARAGUAN BELLES NATIVE WOMAN THE ARRIERO MARKET SCENE A POTTERY VENDER TRANSPORT BEFORE THE RAILWAY IN CENTRAL AMERICA ...
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... COSTA NICARAGUA FortS.Carlos RICA an Toro Castillo Juan San Francisco Basin Eastern Waterparting Lock3 Deseado Basin Lock 2 River San Carlos Basin San River hea Too Dam San Juan SKETCH MAP OF CANAL ROUTE . navigable for a distance of 64 ...
... COSTA NICARAGUA FortS.Carlos RICA an Toro Castillo Juan San Francisco Basin Eastern Waterparting Lock3 Deseado Basin Lock 2 River San Carlos Basin San River hea Too Dam San Juan SKETCH MAP OF CANAL ROUTE . navigable for a distance of 64 ...
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... Costa Rica and possesses in a marked degree the general characteristics of a tropical torrential river ; namely , extreme fluctuations in volume , from a nearly dry bed , with barely enough water to float a canoe , to a discharge of ...
... Costa Rica and possesses in a marked degree the general characteristics of a tropical torrential river ; namely , extreme fluctuations in volume , from a nearly dry bed , with barely enough water to float a canoe , to a discharge of ...
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ARTICLE association Atlantic basin bonds Britain Brito capital Caribbean Sea carried cent Central America channel Chontales Clayton-Bulwer treaty coast commerce communication Company of Nicaragua concession Congress construction contract Corinto cost Costa Rica cubic feet depth Deseado distance Divide cut dredging embankments engineers enterprise established estimate excavation favour feet per second Government of Nicaragua Granada granted Greytown harbour Honduras important Indian isthmus labour Lake Managua Lake Nicaragua lands laws length locks Maritime Canal Company material Menocal ment miles Monroe doctrine nations navigation necessary Nicaragua Canal Ochoa dam opening operation Pacific Ocean Panama parties ports present President privileges proposed railroad railway Republic of Nicaragua river San Juan rock route San Carlos San Francisco San Juan river Senate slope South Spanish steamers stream Suez Canal summit level surveys tion tons trade traffic treaty valley vessels volcanic water-way weirs Western Divide whole width
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Page 296 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same ; which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers ; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us ; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy ; meeting, in all instances, the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries...
Page 294 - At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg to arrange by amicable negotiation the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the northwest coast of this continent.
Page 342 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 338 - ... with any state or people, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...
Page 297 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Page 357 - Panama grants to the United States the use of all the ports of the Republic open to commerce as places of refuge for any vessels employed in the Canal enterprise...
Page 342 - And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Washington, on the...
Page 407 - Company"; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and to be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States...
Page 339 - V. The contracting parties further engage, that when the said canal shall have been completed, they will protect it from interruption, seizure, or unjust confiscation, and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof, so that the said canal may forever be open and free, and the capital invested therein secure.
Page 281 - The capital invested by corporations or citizens of other countries in such an enterprise must in a great degree look for protection to one or more of the great powers of the world. No European power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this continent which the United States would deem wholly inadmissible.