. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 292 MEXICO, CENTEAL AMEEICA, WEST INDIES. will have a depth of 29 or 30 feet, and a minimum breadth of 80 feet on its bed, with sidings at the narrowest parts. Above the upper lock, which will have to be separated by an embankment from the mouth of the San Carlos, the ships will pass into the lake and traverse it obliquely to a second canal, whence they will descend to the Pacific through an artificial lake and the Rio Grande. But Lake Nicaragua itself will have to be deepened in its south-eastern section, where its bed has been raised by the allu
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 292 MEXICO, CENTEAL AMEEICA, WEST INDIES. will have a depth of 29 or 30 feet, and a minimum breadth of 80 feet on its bed, with sidings at the narrowest parts. Above the upper lock, which will have to be separated by an embankment from the mouth of the San Carlos, the ships will pass into the lake and traverse it obliquely to a second canal, whence they will descend to the Pacific through an artificial lake and the Rio Grande. But Lake Nicaragua itself will have to be deepened in its south-eastern section, where its bed has been raised by the alluvial Fig. 127.—Political Divisions of Nicaragua. Scale 1 : 5,000, el Norta 87*30 West oP breenwich Chinandegi. Chontales. Leon. Matagalpa. Granada. Segovia. ^94 Miles. Rivas. Mosquitia. matter washed down by the Rio Frio from the Costa Rica highlands. The Pacific Canal will be partly transformed by huge dykes to lakes at different levels terminating at the port of Brito. Such is the magnificent project first conceived by Thome de Gamond in 1858, then adopted with modifications bj' other engineers, esi^ecially Menocal, and now in process of realisation. But will the estimated sum suifice for the construction. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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