Excerpt from Report of the Survey and Estimates of the Cost of Constructing the Inter-Oceanic Ship Canal: From the Harbor of San Juan Del Norte, on the Atlantic, to the Harbor of Brito, on the Pacific, in the State of Nicaragua, Central America, Made for the American, Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Co, in the Years 1850-51 Canal from the Atlantic, at the harbor of San Juan del Norte, in the State of Nicaragua, to the Pacific Ocean, I, in pursuance of instructions subsequently received, organized an Engineer Corps in the city of New York, and proceeded to San Juan del Norte thence up the river San Juan, and across the Nicaragua Lake to the city of Rivas de Nicaragua, at which place we arrived on the 27th day of August, 1850. 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.