Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Inter-Oceanic Ship Railway: Address of James B. Eads Delivered Before the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, August 11, 1880
Several plans are proposed by which to secure a pas sage through or across the Isthmus for ocean vessels. M. De Lesseps urges a tide-level canal; Col. Menocal and his associates a canal with locks, while I am con vinced that the only practicable solution of the problem lies in the construction of a ship railway.
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