Excerpt from Descriptive Account of Captain Bedford Pim's Project for an International Atlantic and Pacific Junction Railway Across Nicaragua: Report and Estimate of Cost The great isthmus which unites in one vast continent No and Southern America is about one thousand three hundred an miles from end to end; its direction is N. W. And se, and its more or less, three hundred thousand square miles, about the Great Britain and France put together. Intersecting this large expanse, there are several necks which narrow the distance from ocean to ocean, and, at first seem well adapted for transit; but, nevertheless, all the pl crossing at these points, whether by railway or canal, have abandoned, save and except at Panama and Nicaragua. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.