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Page 26 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those...
Page 105 - Panama is suited to the formation of an oceanic canal — one with fewer sluices than the Caledonian Canal— capable of affording an unimpeded passage, at all seasons of the year, to vessels of that class which sail between New York and Liverpool, and between Chili and California.
Page 27 - I believe, within a few miles of the object of our search, yet, having already exceeded the limits of my stay, it became my duty to rejoin the ship without delay, still feeling confident that had time and our provisions allowed us, we should eventually have reached the Atlantic shores, and that easily, by following one of the several rivers or streams which appear to exist in this range of hills, forming certain passages to the sea.
Page 7 - Railway, in Navy Bay, on the Atlantic side, and the Bay of Panama, on the Pacific, it results, that the difference, if any, is exceedingly trifling. Colonel Totten says in his Report, " Although my observations make the mean level of the Pacific from...
Page 124 - ... however, with the requirement that the work should be done by contract. A board of officers was then appointed, by direction of the War Department, to report a plan of operations. The board recommended: 1st. That the procees of stirring up the bottom by suitable machinery should be tried.
Page 23 - ... deep gloom of pine forests; the mountain torrent, which rushes headlong to its fall through overhanging cliffs : all stand alike in an ancient and mysterious communion with the spiritual life of man. From this communion arises the nobler portion of the enjoyment which nature affords. Nowhere does she more deeply impress us with a sense of her greatness, nowhere does she speak to us more forcibly than in the tropical world, beneath the " Indian sky," as the climate of the torrid zone was called...
Page 22 - Such is the happy position of these five points," he 1 Vol. vi., pp. 239-298. wrote, " that they are placed at the centre of the New Continent, at an equal distance from Cape Horn and the north-west coast Opposed to each (in the same parallel), are the seas of China and India, an important circumstance in latitudes where the trade-winds prevail ; all are easily entered by vessels coming from Europe and the United States.
Page 15 - Plans for beginning this work have already been made and considerable material, including summaries of results of early investigations, has been collected. Through an arrangement with Dr. AB Richardson, superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia, dietary studies will be made in that institution during the current year in accordance with plans furnished by this Office.
Page 93 - In looking back from the ocean upon the country through which the party recently travelled, the depression in the Cordilleras becomes plainly visible. It seems, in reality, to lose the mountainous character entirely, and assumes the character of a gradual rise or slope, with hills of a little elevation in the distance. The dense growth of timber which mantles the crests of the hills makes the resemblance to a low flat region still more apparent; and when beheld from a little distance out at sea the...
Page 169 - Darwin expresses his conviction that the granite [now rising into central peaks, fourteen thousand feet in elevation,] must have been in a fluid state since the tertiary group was deposited.* REPUBLIC OF NEW GRANADA.