Junction of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Baron Alexander Von Humboldt, in a long and interesting letter to Mr. Lionel Gisborne on the above subject, says: "Everything depends upon energy and perseverance. I therefore congratulate you, sir, and your courageous friend Mr. Cullen, as well as Sir Charles Fox, Mr. Henderson, and Mr. Brassey, for having given your names to so noble an undertaking. I have always considered, firstly, the opening of an oceanic canal without locks, and secondly, the cut at Huchnecoca, in the valley of Mexico (which is on a comparatively smaller scale, as may be seen from the map and section published), as two events calculated highly to improve the relations between the different families of the human species. In fact, such a work as the one you contemplate will bring Eastern Asia nearer to the nations of Europe and America. It will render the whole globe more easy to be travelled over; this little globe, of which Christopher Columbus, in one of his letters to the Queen of Spain, said, "El mundo es poco."