Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There were four routes proposed for the canal-the southern route; the route by Panama; the ship railway, and the canal through lake Nicaragua. It was found that the southern route would require a tunnel to be drilled through solid rock, high enough to allow there lower masts of a ship to pass under. This trunnel would have been very expensive, and it was also found that the expense that would have to be increased in sending down the topmast of vessels would offset the advantage gained by the canal, so the scheme was a bandoned. The plan...
...principal advantage the Nicaragua canal possesses over its rivals is that it is aided by the nature of the land about it. Through ninety miles of its length it flows through the lake of Nicargua where little or no dredging will be required...
...such construction, the Nicaragua route possesses great advantages over the Panama route in; (a) ease and economy of construction; (b) natural approaches; (c) distance saved, etc.- North Am. Rev., vol. 132, 107; Ninteenth Century...
...With Colombia or Nicaragua in particular...
...provisions of the proposed treaty of 1884 with Nicaragua are in harmony with this policy...