. The railroad and engineering journal . antages of each of the principal lo-calities under investigation. IX.—THE TEHUANTEPEC ROUTE. There is but a single proposed canal route across thisisthmus, extendmg from the Bay of Campeche, on the At-lantic side, and following the valley of the CoatzacoalcosRiver, crossing the divide at Tarifa Pass, and thence to theBay of Salinas Cruz, in the Gulf of Tehuantepec. During the time of Cortez—1520-34—this territory wasexplored with a view to interoceanic communication, andtraffic was carried on between the two oceans by way ofthis mountain pass. Tradition
. The railroad and engineering journal . antages of each of the principal lo-calities under investigation. IX.—THE TEHUANTEPEC ROUTE. There is but a single proposed canal route across thisisthmus, extendmg from the Bay of Campeche, on the At-lantic side, and following the valley of the CoatzacoalcosRiver, crossing the divide at Tarifa Pass, and thence to theBay of Salinas Cruz, in the Gulf of Tehuantepec. During the time of Cortez—1520-34—this territory wasexplored with a view to interoceanic communication, andtraffic was carried on between the two oceans by way ofthis mountain pass. Tradition falsified its topography, and it became cur-rently reported that the depression known as Tarila Passhad an elevation of only a few feet above the level of thesea ; but in 1771 Spanish engineers made a survey be-tween the Bay of Campeche and the Gulf of Tehuantepec,which showed the mountainous nature of the country trav-ersed. In 1836, Mexico having achieved her independence, aGovernmental survey was made ; and also, in 1842-43, a. I. a From the Gulf of Darien, via the Peranchita River, tothe Gulf of San Miguel (the Tuyra-Peranchita Route) ; From the Gulf of Darien, via the Atrato and Truandorivers, to the Pacific (the Truando Route) ; From the Gulf of Darien, via the Atrato and Napipirivers, to Cupica, or to Chiri Chiri Bay (the Atrato-NapipiRoute) ; From the Gulf of Darien, via the Atrato and Bojayarivers, to the Pacific (the Bojaya Route) ; From the Atrato I-iiver, at its headwaters, via the SanJuan River, to the Pacific, near Buenaventura Bay. The surveys may be said to have extended over the en-tire territory, since it became the province of the survey-ors to explore all localities not already definitely knownto be impracticable. The data thus obtained demonstrated succinctly the survey by a Commission, under the direction of Don JoseGaray, who had received a concession from the MexicanGovernment to construct a canal. This survey claimed an elevation of only 684 ft.
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