. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 620 Miles. side has already been attached the San Luis Potosi—Tampico line ; but on the Pacific side, where trade is less developed than on the slopes facing towards Europe, the system is not yet completed which will ultimately extend to the seaports of Altata, Mazatlan, San Bias, Manzanillo, Sihuantanejo, Acapulco, Huatulco, and Salina Cruz. On this Pacific side the engineering difficulties are as great as on the Atlantic slope. Thus the line which runs west of the capital across the Ajusco crests to the heights of Las Cruces near Salazar, attains an extre
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 620 Miles. side has already been attached the San Luis Potosi—Tampico line ; but on the Pacific side, where trade is less developed than on the slopes facing towards Europe, the system is not yet completed which will ultimately extend to the seaports of Altata, Mazatlan, San Bias, Manzanillo, Sihuantanejo, Acapulco, Huatulco, and Salina Cruz. On this Pacific side the engineering difficulties are as great as on the Atlantic slope. Thus the line which runs west of the capital across the Ajusco crests to the heights of Las Cruces near Salazar, attains an extreme altitude of 10,000 feet, or about 2,600 feet above the city of Mexico ; this is the highest point yet reached by the Mexican system. In 1774, the engineer Cramer, commissioned to survey the isthmus, reported that a navigable canal might be cut from ocean to ocean without much difiiculty and expense, and in his report he traced the course of such a canal. But no attempt
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