. Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad; together with a traveler's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad and its connections with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan, by sail and steam . ssity for the trade, at least a large portion ofit, to seek this, the only direct route between the Atlanticand Pacific Oceans.* TRAVELERS GUIDE. As the traveler enters the harbor of Navy Bay he cannot fail to observe the beauty of the scene spread out be-fore him. On the right and in front of the harbor, whichsweeps
. Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad; together with a traveler's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad and its connections with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan, by sail and steam . ssity for the trade, at least a large portion ofit, to seek this, the only direct route between the Atlanticand Pacific Oceans.* TRAVELERS GUIDE. As the traveler enters the harbor of Navy Bay he cannot fail to observe the beauty of the scene spread out be-fore him. On the right and in front of the harbor, whichsweeps around a semicircle of some three miles in extent,the primeval forest of the tropics, with its dense vinous un- Miles.* The distance from to Sydney, Australia, via Cape Horn, is 12,870 via Panama 9,950 In favor of Panama 2,720 The distance from N. York to Honolulu, Sdwich Isl., via Cape Horn 13,560 via 6,800 In favor of Panama 6,760 The distance from New York to Hong Kong, via Cape Horn 17,420 via Panama 11,850 In favor of Panama 5,570 The distance from New York to Jeddo, Japan, via Cape Horn 16,710 via Panama 10,220 In favor of Panama 6,490 Distance from England to Sydney, Australia, via Cape of G. Hope 12,828 uiaPanama 12,730 In favor of Panama 98 nili^. PANAMA KAILROAD. 75 dergrowth and its towering cocoa and palm trees, meets hisview; on the left, from the iron light-house on the extremeseaward point, the brightly-painted Americo-Spanish townof Aspinwall extends, its long covered wharves filled withthe shipping of many nations. A verandaed street skirtsthe shore, and a dense equatorial forest rising up behind isrelieved by the faint and misty mountain range, which formsthe back-bone of the Isthmus, and connects the great Cordil-lera of the northern and southern continents—the RockyMountains and the Andes. This harbor (said to have beendiscovered by Columbus during his third voyage, and byhim named Navy Bay) is three miles in length by two inbreadth, with
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