The Panama Canal
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Rodrigues, J. C.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Panama Canal: Its History, Its Political Aspects, and Financial Difficulties In December 1879 I accepted a special commission from my friend, the editor of the New York World, to go to Panama, meet M. de Lesseps, who was expected there, and write my impressions on his canal scheme in its different bearings. In studying the way in which that enterprise was launched I was led into a most mortifying disappointment, for the whole project of the great promoter seemed to me to have been undertaken without any serious studies, and indeed without the common precautions taken by any responsible contractor in works of much less magnitude. Without expressing any opinion on the much-debated question, whether the canal by the Panama Railway line is practicable or not, from the engineer´s point of view, what had become patent to me was, that people were enticed to go blindly into that scheme. I wrote at great length in that sense for the World, and I also contributed at the time some editorial matter on the subject for the New York Nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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