. The earth and its inhabitants .. . VIALTRAT/VÎ 9^° e West of" br-eenwich 97° 15' 3 300 Yanls. length. With good reason the Mexicans speak of this great engineering work as a monument of human genius. To connect the network with that of the United States was a far easier under- taking. The Anahuac plateau has a general incline from south to north without any abrupt declivities, so that throughout most of the section between the capital and the E,io Grande del Norte heavy engineering operations could be dispensed with. In 1884. two years after the Americans themselves had reached this riv
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . VIALTRAT/VÎ 9^° e West of" br-eenwich 97° 15' 3 300 Yanls. length. With good reason the Mexicans speak of this great engineering work as a monument of human genius. To connect the network with that of the United States was a far easier under- taking. The Anahuac plateau has a general incline from south to north without any abrupt declivities, so that throughout most of the section between the capital and the E,io Grande del Norte heavy engineering operations could be dispensed with. In 1884. two years after the Americans themselves had reached this river at Laredo, the Mexicans opened their line to Nuevo Laredo on the opposite bank. The same year they completed another line running parallel with the western Sierra Madre all the way to Paso del Norte. Railway communication was thus henceforth continuous between Mexico and San Francisco, St. Louis and New York: by the latter route passengers were able, in 1889, to travel from
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