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Alexander von Humboldt: „The Isthmus of Darien Ship Canal“, in: ders., Sämtliche Schriften digital, herausgegeben von Oliver Lubrich und Thomas Nehrlich, Universität Bern 2021. URL: <https://humboldt.unibe.ch/text/1853-The_Isthmus_of-02-neu> [abgerufen am 06.12.2024].
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| Titel | The Isthmus of Darien Ship Canal | ||||
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| Jahr | 1853 | ||||
| Ort | London | ||||
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Nachweis in: The Express 2129 (18. Juni 1853), [o. S.].
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| Sprache | Englisch | ||||
| Typografischer Befund | Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kapitälchen. | ||||
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|Seitenumbruch|
Potsdam, 4th June, 1853.Sir—I am very much to blame for having so long delayedan answer to the agreeable and
interesting despatch that youhave been kind enough to forward me, by the
hands of Mr.Augustus Peterman, so estimable by his character, as
wellas by the solidity of his geographical labours. Dr. Cullencannot
doubt the high importance that I would attach tothe merit of his courageous
and useful investigations in theeastern part of the Isthmus of Panama;
knowing my posi-tion and my antediluvian age, he will receive with
indul-gence, even so late, the expression of my lively gratitude.After
having laboured in vain, during half a century, toprove the possibility of
an oceanic canal, and topoint out the Gulf of San Miguel and Cupicaas
the points most worthy of attention; after havingregretted, almost with
bitterness, in the last edition of my“Aspects of Nature,”
that the employment of the means,which the present state of our knowledge
affords for ob-taining precise measurements has been so long delayed;
Iought, more than any one else, to be satisfied to see, at last,my
hopes for so noble an enterprise revived. By your pub-lications, sir, and
by that of Mr. Gisborne, will be origi-nated the great work of changing an important part of thecommerce of
nations, and of rendering more accessible therich countries of Eastern Asia
and the Indian Archipelago.The undertaking is by no means above the
intellectual andmaterial power which civilised nations have attained
to.The work should be one to last for ever; it should not com-mence
with a canal with locks, like the magnificent Cale-donian Canal; it must be
a really oceanic canal, withoutlocks; a free passage from sea to sea,
across which thespeed of the navigation will be modified, but not
inter-rupted by the difference in height and non-coincidence ofthe
tides.—
THE ISTHMUS OF DARIEN SHIP CANAL.to the editor of the express.
Receive, I pray you, sir, the expression of myhighest consideration. Yours, &c., &c.(Signed) Alexander von Humboldt.
Dr. Edward Cullen, Strand, London.