The Isthmian Canal
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Excerpt from The Isthmian Canal: Presented at the Twentieth Annual Session of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress Held at Denver, Colo, August 16-21, 1909 It was President Grant who first advanced the policy of "an American canal under American control," and it was President Roosevelt who, voicing the sentiments of the entire American people, lent the aid of the United States in undertaking the work, which is being hastened to completion by President Taft. It is interesting to review the various steps and numerous attempts which have led up to the construction of the canal. First there was Balboa, who, driven from home by his creditors, landed on the Isthmus of Panama in 1500, where he married the daughter of an Indian chief. In 1513 he organized an expedition that crossed from the Atlantic to the Pacific afoot in twenty-three days over what is now known as the Caledonia Canal route, one of the score of projected routes that have been since advocated at various times by various persons. Old Panama, on the Pacific side, which afterwards became known as the richest city in the world of its time, was settled in 1517, and the highways from old Panama to Nombre de Dios, on the Atlantic coast, and from old Panama to Porto Bello, which were soon afterwards built, became the first regularly traveled routes across the Isthmus, over which passed all the spoils of conquest sent back to Spain from Peru. These highways, paved with stone, furnished ample facilities for the pack trains which traveled over them for many years, and to-day some parts of these roads are in good condition and can be traced for miles through the tropical vegetation in which they remain hidden and unused. It was in those early days that the idea of a canal took birth, even while the existence of a natural strait was in doubt. A Spanish engineer, named Saavedra, one of Balboa´s followers on the Isthmus, is reported to have been its first advocate, in 1517. After studying the subject for years he was about to forward his plans in 1529 to Charles V, King of Spain, when his death occurred. Surveys of the Isthmus with this object in view were ordered, but the work was reported to be impracticable, and with the tools available in those days this was certainly true. Philip II, successor to Charles V, in 1567, sent an engineer to survey the Nicaragua route, who likewise submitted a report unfavorable to the success of the work. 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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