The earth and its inhabitants .. . outh America than for Europe. Some French specu-lators, inspired more \>y colonial patriotism than by economic interests, are atpresent occupied with various schemes for connecting by rail the Mediterraneanseaboard with the Sahara, Sudan, and Senegal. 8 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES EEQIONS. Doubtless a line running from Algiers to Ijake Chad, and continued south-wards to the Ubanghi and the Congo, would at some future time possess an un-deniable value in developing and utilising the still uutouclied resources of thoseregions. Hut the lines already begun at Ihil
The earth and its inhabitants .. . outh America than for Europe. Some French specu-lators, inspired more \>y colonial patriotism than by economic interests, are atpresent occupied with various schemes for connecting by rail the Mediterraneanseaboard with the Sahara, Sudan, and Senegal. 8 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES EEQIONS. Doubtless a line running from Algiers to Ijake Chad, and continued south-wards to the Ubanghi and the Congo, would at some future time possess an un-deniable value in developing and utilising the still uutouclied resources of thoseregions. Hut the lines already begun at Ihilippeville, Algiers, and Oran would,if continued south-westwards to Dakar, present the advantage of not only con-necting Algeria and Senegal in a single commercial and political zone, but, as hasalready been pointed out by the engineers, would also serve to swell the greatstream of international traffic between Europe and South America. Srtift-sailing Fig. 3.—FUTUKE PiOCTES BETWEEN PaEIS AND BU£NOS I : 110,000, 5G° West cP urcerwic^i Railways. Projected Railways. Steamers. ^-^^^—^ 1,240 Miles. liners, such as those now plying between Liverpool and New York, could crossthe Atlantic between Dakar and the Brazilian ports of Natal and Pernambuco inless than three days ; and on this short route at one cf the narrowest parts of theocean, passengers would have the pleasure of sighting land twice, at the islandsof Sao Paulo and Fernando Noronha. The great Transatlantic line connectingthe three continents might also be continued by a coast railway from Pernambucoto Buenos Ayres, with branches ramifying into the interior of the continent. Bythis route, at the present speed of the most powerful engines, the traveller might EXPLORATION OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN SEABOARD. 9 reach Buenos Ayres from Paris in eleven days, that is, in a third of the timeoccupied by existing Knes.* Exploration of the Seaboard. The work of discovery, begun iu North America centuries before the
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