The Tehuantepec Inter-ocean Railroad: A Commercial and Statistical Review Showing Its Local, National, and International Features, and AdvantagesA. S. Barnes, 1880 - 90 Seiten |
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¹ Barnard 66 Cape Horn 66 Panama Saving 66 round trip acre Appendix Atlantic and Pacific Atlantic plains Barnard and Williams bushels Canal cent Chiapas citizens Coatzacoalcos River Commercial Relations Company Cordillera Cortez cotton crop Cruz cultivation Department of Agriculture Ditto ending June 30 exports Finance of Mexico follows future patronage grant harbor Hernando Cortes highway important Isthmus of Panama Isthmus of Tehuan Isthmus of Tehuantepec J. J. Williams José de Garay June 30 lands mahogany Mexican Congress Minatitlan Mississippi Valley mountain Navigation for 1879 Oaxaca ORLEANS outlet Pacific Ocean Pacific plains Palenque Panama 66 ports President of Mexico railway region Republic of Mexico road route ruins SAN FRANCISCO saving of distance Saving via Tehuantepec says Secretary of Finance Senate Ex Shufeldt's Survey silver southern square miles Statute miles Tabasco table-lands Tehuantepec great circle tepec tributary United Vera Cruz wheat yield Yucatan
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Seite 78 - States, it is stipulated that neither government will interpose an}' obstacle to the transit of persons and merchandise of both nations; and at no time shall higher charges be made on the transit of persons and property of citizens of the United States...
Seite 36 - The simplicity of its cultivation, and the facility of extracting and preparing its products, render it of universal use. From it is fabricated thread and cordage, mats, bagging, and clothing, and the hammocks in which the natives are born, repose, and die. The fibres of the pita are sometimes employed in the manufacture of paper ; its juice is used as a caustic for wounds, and its thorns serve the Indians for needles and pins.
Seite 54 - ... except so far as is absolutely necessary to supply their own immediate consumption. In all the mountainous districts of Oaxaca> and more especially in the spacious valleys which are situated from twenty-five hundred to six thousand feet above the level of the sea, we find a soil and climate at least equal, if not superior, to any on the globe. There is not a single article raised in the temperate zone, that would not here find a congenial region. Wheat, and all kinds of grain, yield a return...
Seite 78 - ... citizens of the United States than may be made on the persons and property of other foreign nations, nor shall any interest in said transit way, nor in the proceeds thereof, be transferred to any foreign government. The United States by its Agents shall have the right to transport across the Isthmus, in closed bags, the mails of the United States not intended for distribution along the line of communication; also the effects of the United States government and its citi- > zens, which may be intended...
Seite 85 - The Isthmus of Tehuantepec : Being the Results of a Survey for a Railroad to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, made by the Scientific Commission under the Direction of Major JG...
Seite 40 - has four interior courts, the largest being 70 by 80 feet in extent. These are surrounded by corridors, and the architectural work facing them is richly decorated. Within the building were many rooms. From the north side of one of the smaller courts rises a high tower, or pagoda-like...
Seite 40 - It stands near the river Chacamas, on a terraced pyrmidal foundation, forty feet high and three hundred and ten feet long, by two hundred and sixty broad at the base. The edifice itself is two hundred and twenty-eight feet long, one hundred and eighty wide, and twenty-five feet high. It faces the east, and has fourteen doorways on each side, with eleven at the ends. It is built of hewn stone laid in mortar of the best quality. It has four interior courts, the largest being seventy by eighty feet...
Seite 20 - By a narrow opening or gap in these mountains, we descend suddenly from the elevated table lands to the Pacific plains, which form the third or southern division. These plains average about twenty miles in breadth, from the base of the mountains to the Pacific coast, and descend on the meridians to the lagoons, at an inclination varying from ten to fifteen feet in the mile; thus forming, as it were, an immense inclined plane, with its side next the mountains about two hundred and fifty feet above...
Seite 22 - Last, comes the plain of Tehuantepec, nearly as healthy as the " hilly region, although warmer, presenting all the characteristics of " a healthy tropical climate. " All these three regions together form a broad surface of country " from the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of the Pacific, of a great " variety of resources and of remarkable healthiness, a feature " peculiar to the Isthmus, as the lands on both of its sides are very " unhealthy ; such as Vera Cruz and Tabasco on the Gulf, Acapulco, " Huatulco,...
Seite 55 - It is one of the most delightful countries in this part of the globe. The beauty and salubrity of the climate, the fertility of the soil and the richness and variety of its productions, all minister to the prosperity of...