Excerpt from Notes on the Nicaragua Canal The visit to Nicaragua described in this volume was undertaken in search of some means for stimulating the tardy development and depressed agricultural interests of California, Oregon, and Washington. It resulted in an opinion in favor of constructing a ship-canal at Nicaragua. The subject has proved of such increasing interest, and facts regarding it have so accumulated, that the only satisfactory way to place before others the information gathered is to print it. The visit and the subsequent investigations have made part of the work of a busy life. The subject is so large, and the data collected are so fragmentary, that the writer, knowing nothing of book-making, and having only a plain statement to make, has called these memoranda - for they are only memoranda - "Notes on the Nicaragua Canal." The visit was made in the spring of 1895, and the succeeding interval has been considered a suitable time for deliberation before forming any final judgment on matters of such importance. 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.

Excerpt from The Key of the Pacific: The Nicaragua Canal As a pioneer of commerce in Burmah, indo-china, China, and South Africa, as explorer, administrator and special correspondent, my constant aim has been to aid in opening up fresh markets on the fringes of our empire. I have long held the View that the true policy for this country is to foster and develop the existing trade with our colonies and possessions, and to open up entirely new markets, and I have done what I could, on the platform and in the press, to awaken the country to the importance of this line of action. 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.

Excerpt from The Nicaragua Canal Of the advantages of this canal to our industry and com merce it becomes us, therefore, first to speak. In this connec tion it should not be forgotten that the states of North and South America lying along the Pacific furnish in large abun dance those commodities which are constantly supplied with. 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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