. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 326 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES. Unfortunately, the roadstead offers bad anchorage during the prevalence of the north winds, when large vessels prefer the more sheltered waters under Taboga Island 11 miles farther south. According to the general plan, the interoceanic canal was to be continued between embankments or sea-walls as far as the little group of islets where begins the five-fathom line. This anchorage is already connected by a deep channel with the mainland. Fig. 148.—Colon. 9rn^p 1 : 4G,0'"' 79°55' West, or Greenwich -7
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 326 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES. Unfortunately, the roadstead offers bad anchorage during the prevalence of the north winds, when large vessels prefer the more sheltered waters under Taboga Island 11 miles farther south. According to the general plan, the interoceanic canal was to be continued between embankments or sea-walls as far as the little group of islets where begins the five-fathom line. This anchorage is already connected by a deep channel with the mainland. Fig. 148.—Colon. 9rn^p 1 : 4G,0'"' 79°55' West, or Greenwich -79'53' Depths. Reefs exposed at low water. 0 to 16 Feet. 16 to 32 Feet. 1,100 Yards. During the Spanish régime the only line of communication between the two oceans was a simple mule-track crossing the isthmus northwards to Puerto Belo on the Atlantic side. This old seaport, whose fortifications are now overgrown with a forest vegetation, has sunk to the position of an obscure hamlet occuj^ied by a few hundred negroes who do a little trade with Colon, Colombia and Jamaica. The harbour is commodious, deep and well sheltered, but the district is extremely unhealthy owing to the want of circulation caused by the surrounding 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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