Map of the Panama Rail Road and adjacent country exhibiting the Rio Chagres & mule roads from Gorgona to Panama and the ports of Limon, or Navy Bay on the Atlantic & the Bay of Panama on the Pacific, being the termini of the road, together with the line for a rail road approximately laid down by Col

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Map of the Panama Rail Road and adjacent country exhibiting the Rio Chagres & mule roads from Gorgona to Panama and the ports of Limon, or Navy Bay on the Atlantic & the Bay of Panama on the Pacific, being the termini of the road, together with the line for a rail road approximately laid down by Col. Geo. W. Hughes from Gorgona to Panama / this rail road was commenced in the year 1850 and the last rail was laid 27th Jan. 1855, the whole has been constructed under the direction of George M. Totten, chief engineer, and James L. Baldwin, chief asst. eng., and this map compiled in June and July 1855 from the various surveys made during the above period, by Thomas Harrison, crown surveyor, Jamaica. [1855]

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1 map : ms., col. ; on sheet 72 x 54 cm.

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