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Waters. Deep waterways to Gulf and Atlantic Ocean from the Great Lakes; Inland waterways, flood control, especially on Mississippi and Colorado Rivers; survey for these purposes; examination of licenses to be granted by the Federal Water Power Commission by Congress...
...surface is covered by vast forests of larch and fir trees. Large tracts of land arc fit for pasturage and agriculture, and there is oil, as Oil Shah Harry F. Sinclair could testify. The climatic conditions are on the whole excellent, and are comparable to those obtaining in inland British Columbia. Moreover, the island has but a mere 100,000 inhabitants whose principal occupation is fishing for herrings. The country can absorb for many years all the emigrants from Japan...
This new "Nickel Plate system" which has grown up so rapidly, will extend from the Atlantic seaboard ports of New York, Newport News and Norfolk, to such important inland centers as Detroit, Grand Rapids, Toledo, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Charleston and Lynchburg...
Hundreds of miles from the delta of the Orinoco and far inland from the sunny town of Caracas, are innumerable Indians who have staunchly resisted all white ingress. Under Spanish rule, Catholic missions were to be found along the river for nearly 1,000 miles, but they were abandoned...
...maps, the vast inland wilderness surounding the uncertain juncture of Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil gives the impression of being as well known to the world as the valley of the Mississippi. On the contrary, few white men have ever penetrated it. Here are the scenes of all sorts of fantastic romances, like Conan Doyle's The Lost World and W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions. Here is the fascinating stream called the Casiquiare, reputed to flow both ways and to connect the Rio Negro, largest northern tributary of the Amazon, with the Orinoco. Here nations have not yet ceased...