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Alexander von Humboldt: „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-11-neu> [abgerufen am 26.04.2024].
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| Titel | Isthmus of Darien Ship Canal | ||||
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| Jahr | 1853 | ||||
| Ort | Cork | ||||
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Nachweis in: The Cork Examiner 12:1742 (27. Juni 1853), [o. S.].
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| Sprache | Englisch | ||||
| Typografischer Befund | Antiqua; Spaltensatz. | ||||
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|Seitenumbruch|
(Ttanslation from the French.)to dr. edward cullen, strand, london.Sir,—I am very much to blame for having so long de-layed an
answer to the agreeable and interesting dispatchthat you have been kind
enough to forward me by thehands of Mr. Augustus Peterman, so estimable by
his cha-racter, as well as by the solidity of his geographical
labours.Dr. Cullen cannot doubt the high importance that I wouldattach
to the merit of his courageous and useful investiga-tions in the eastern
part of the Isthmus of Panama; know-ing my position and my antediluvian
age, he will receivewith indulgence, even so late, the expression of my
livelygratitude.After having laboured in vain during half a century toprove the possibility of an Oceanic
Canal, and to point outthe Gulf of San Miguel and Cupica as the points most
wor-thy of attention—after having regretted, almost with
bitter-ness, in the last edition of my “Aspects of Nature,”
thatthe employment of the means, which the present state ofour
knowledge affords, for obtaining precise measurementshas been so long
delayed—I ought, more than any one else,to be satisfied to see at
last my hopes for so noble an enter-prise revived. By your publications,
sir, and by that of Mr.Gisborne, will be originated the great work of
changing animportant part of the commerce of nations, and of
renderingmore accessible the rich countries of Eastera Asia and
theIndian Archipelago. The undertaking is by no means abovethe
intellectual and material power which civilized nationshave attained to.
The work should be one to last for ever;it should not commence with a canal
with locks, like themagnificent Caledonian Canal; it must be a really
OceanicCanal, without locks; a free passage from sea to sea,
acrosswhich the speed of the navigation will be modified, but
notinterrupted, by the differences in height and non-coincidenceof the
tides.
ISTHMUS OF DARIEN SHIP CANAL.
(Ttanslation from the French.)
Receive, I pray you, Sir, the expression of my highestconsideration.—Yours, &c., &c.,(Signed) ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT.
Potsdam, 4th June, 1852.