The American Type of Isthmian Canal
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It was necessary to place a war-shipfor a whole winter at anchor three miles from the shore to prove theerror of this assumption and set at rest a foolish rumor which came nearproving fatal to the enterprise.
Earthquakes have occurred on the Isthmus, and there is record of oneshock of some consequence in 1882. The matter has been inquired into ina general way by the various Isthmian commissions, and assumed someprominence during the discussions and debates regarding a choice ofroutes. It was pl...ain to even the least informed that the volcanic beltof Nicaragua constituted a real menace to a canal in that region; andone of the strongest arguments advanced in the minority report of theSenate committee of 1902, submitted by Senator Kittredge, now a leadingadvocate of the sea-level project, in opposition to the Nicaragua Canal, was the assertion of the practical freedom of the Panama Isthmus fromthe danger of earth movements.
The minority of the Senate committee of 1902 in their report, summing upthe final reasons in favor of the Panama route (section 12), said: At Panama earthquakes are few and unimportant, while the Nicaraguan route passes over a well-known coastal weakness.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It was necessary to place a war-shipfor a whole winter at anchor three miles from the shore to prove theerror of this assumption and set at rest a foolish rumor which came nearproving fatal to the enterprise.
Earthquakes have occurred on the Isthmus, and there is record of oneshock of some consequence in 1882. The matter has been inquired into ina general way by the various Isthmian commissions, and assumed someprominence during the discussions and debates regarding a choice ofroutes. It was pl...ain to even the least informed that the volcanic beltof Nicaragua constituted a real menace to a canal in that region; andone of the strongest arguments advanced in the minority report of theSenate committee of 1902, submitted by Senator Kittredge, now a leadingadvocate of the sea-level project, in opposition to the Nicaragua Canal, was the assertion of the practical freedom of the Panama Isthmus fromthe danger of earth movements.
The minority of the Senate committee of 1902 in their report, summing upthe final reasons in favor of the Panama route (section 12), said: At Panama earthquakes are few and unimportant, while the Nicaraguan route passes over a well-known coastal weakness.
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