The Practicability and Importance of a Ship Canal to Connect the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans: With a History of the Enterprise from Its First Inception to the Completion of the Surveys. Including the Instructions from F. M. Kelley, Esq., to William Kennish, Esq., Civil Engineer |
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