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One of the early proposed routes for a Panama Canal to allow easier shipping between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Lionel Gisbourn was a British engineer who surveyed the Isthmus of Darien with the intention of building a canal connecting the two coasts. This map is found in ‘The Isthmus of Darien in 1852: Journal of the Expedition of Inquiry for the Junction of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans’. The final canal was built further north.
GISBORNE, Lionel
Atlantic & Pacific Junction. Topographical Map of a portion of the Isthmus of Darien in site of Proposed Inter-Oceanic Navigation
Washington, August 1852
355 x 490 mm., folded as issued, one fold slightly reinforced otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 7574
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