. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . e Orient via the IMediter-ranean Sea, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. The use of thisgreat ocean highway was made possible by the opening ofthe Suez Canal in 1869, and as sailing vessels cannotnavigate the canal and the Red Sea, this route is used ex-clusively by steamers. 3. The next important route is the one around SouthAfrica connecting both European and American ports onthe North Atlantic with South America and with Australiaand New Zealand. All freiglit steamers from
. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . e Orient via the IMediter-ranean Sea, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. The use of thisgreat ocean highway was made possible by the opening ofthe Suez Canal in 1869, and as sailing vessels cannotnavigate the canal and the Red Sea, this route is used ex-clusively by steamers. 3. The next important route is the one around SouthAfrica connecting both European and American ports onthe North Atlantic with South America and with Australiaand New Zealand. All freiglit steamers from Europe andthe United States to Australia pass around the Cape ofGood Hope instead of going through the Suez Canal when OCEAN HIGHWAYS AND SEABOARD TERMINALS 223 on llic way to Australia. Sliips from European portsmi<i:ht save about 1,000 miles by using the canal route, butthe tolls charged for passing through the canal are so higlias to make it clieaper for the freiglit vessels to take thesomewhat longer cape route. Passenger and mail steamerstake the Suez route. 4. Corresponding with the South African-Australian. Tidal Lock and Power House Near Entrance to Kaiser Wilhelm Canal from Kiel Bay. route, just described, is the one around South America, connecting the Atlantic ports of America and Europe with the west coast of the three Americas. This route is used much more by the ships from Europe than by those from the United States, the larger part of the traffic betweenIG 224 ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION the two seaboards of the United States being handled bythe Isthmuses of Panama and Tehuantepec. 5. In the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, which aresometimes called the American Mediterranean/ arenumerous routes connecting the adjacent cities. Theseroutes within the Gulf and Caribbean connect, through theStraits of Florida and Windward Passage, with the high-ways to and from our Atlantic seaboard, and, by way ofthese Straits and the Mona Passage, with the ocean route toand fr
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