Description

Report of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Practicability of a Ship-Canal Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the Way of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is a report prepared by the United States Navy for the United States Senate concerning an expedition to southern Mexico undertaken by the navy in October 1870‒May 1871. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is the place at which the distance between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans is the shortest, and it thus was considered a prime possible location for an interoceanic canal. The ...