. The earth and its inhabitants ... ous to the German Zollverein, would place the con-sumers of South America completely in the hands of the producers of NorthAmerica. With a view to developing these plans, the United States traders, sup-ported by a bureau of the American republics installed at Washington, havealready organised numerous lines of steamers to ply regularly between New York,Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco, and all the more important pointsalong the South American seaboard. New lines are yearly established, and atthe Pan-American Congress of 1889 the delegates of th
. The earth and its inhabitants ... ous to the German Zollverein, would place the con-sumers of South America completely in the hands of the producers of NorthAmerica. With a view to developing these plans, the United States traders, sup-ported by a bureau of the American republics installed at Washington, havealready organised numerous lines of steamers to ply regularly between New York,Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco, and all the more important pointsalong the South American seaboard. New lines are yearly established, and atthe Pan-American Congress of 1889 the delegates of the Southern republics were EAILWAY PEOJECTS. 51 assured that the communication between North and South would soon become stillmore frequent and rapid. Nor is this all : although the sinuous form of the Central American isthmuses,their oblique disposition to the meridian, and the easy communications by water Yi<r. 17.—Zones op Distances between London oe Paris and South Ameeica. Scale 1 : 60,000,000. 100° West or Greenwich 20°. Distances by time. 15 Days. 15 to 20 20 to 25Days. 25 to 30 30 Days to 2 Months Days. 2 Months. and upwards. Regular steam service. Railways. Projected Andean line. 1,240 Miles. along both shores render absolutely useless a longitudinal railway between theA-olcanic plateaux of Guatemala and the Colombian forests of the Atrato valley, theUnited States Government has given countenance to the project of such a trunk 52 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. line, as being of the first importance for connecting in a single system theinnumerable railroads of North America with the few that have hitherto been con-structed in the southern continent. In Congress a chart was even exhibitedshowing tracings of the main lines which were, as if by enchantment, to bringinto close proximity the great cities of the New World now separated by journeysof weeks or months. But since then little has been heard of these grand schemes,although partial surveys have been made o
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