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A new map of Central America : shewing the different lines of Atlantic & Pacific communication

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A new map of Central America : shewing the different lines of Atlantic & Pacific communication

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Shows railroads, proposed canals or water communications, common roads, gold and silver mines, major cities and towns.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
For 1850 edition, see Fillmore map collection, no. 202.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850 by J. Disturnell in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York."
Includes text, notes, 2 insets and 5 geologic cross sections.
Insets and cross sections: Map of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the Republic of Mexico reduced from the original by order of Dn. José de Garay -- Isthmus of Panama -- Plan of the mouth of the river Coatzacoalcos--A vertical projection upon a plan perpendicular to the meridian--Section 1, across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec--Section 2, from Port St. Juan del Norte to Port Realejo--Section 3, from the Lake Nicaragua to Port San Juan del Sur--Section 4, between Chagres (Atlantic) & Vaca de Monte (Pacific).
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
LC copy signed on verso: Millard Fillmore, Feby. 6, 1851. Sectioned into 18 and mounted on cloth, folding to 21 x 15 cm. Cited in Panama: An Exhibition in Five Parts (Washington, Library of Congress, 1978), page 3.
In lower left margin: Lith. of Sarony and Major, 117 Fulton St., N. York.

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01/01/1851
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central america
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