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Alexander von Humboldt: „Humboldt and the 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-27-neu> [abgerufen am 20.04.2024].
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| Titel | Humboldt and the Darien Ship Canal | ||||
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| Jahr | 1853 | ||||
| Ort | Panama City | ||||
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Nachweis in: The Panama Herald 3:45/207 (11. August 1853), [o. S.].
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| Sprache | Englisch | ||||
| Typografischer Befund | Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kapitälchen. | ||||
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|Seitenumbruch|
The venerable Baron Humboldt has writtenthe following letter to
Dr. Cullen, the project-or of the Darien Ship Canal.
Potsdam,
June 4, 1853
Humboldt and the Darien Ship Canal
Sir: I am very much to blame for having solong delayed an an answer to the agreeableund interesting
despatch that you have beenkind enough to forward me, by the
hands ofMr. Augustus Peterman, so estimable by hischaracter as well as by the solidity of his geo-graphical labors. Dr. Cullen cannot doubtthe high importance
that I would attach to themerit of his courageous and useful
investiga-tions in the eastern part of the Isthmus of Pa-nama; knowing my position and my antedilu-vian
age, he will receive with indulgence, evenso late, the
expression of my lively gratitude.After having labored in vain,
during half acentury, to prove the possibility of an oceaniccanal, and to point out the Gulf of San Migueland Cupica as the points most worthy of at-tention; after
having regretted, almost withbitterness, in the last edition of
my “Aspectsof Nature,” that the employment of the
meanswhich the present state of our knowledge af-fords for obtaining precise measurements hasbeen so long delayed, I ought, more than anyone else, to be
satisfied to see at last my hopesfor so noble an enterprise
revived. By yourpublications, sir, and by that of Mr.
Gisborne,will be originated the great work of changingan important part of the commerce of nations,and of rendering more accessible the richcountries of Eastern
Asia and the Indian Ar-chipelago. The undertaking is by no
means,above the intellectual and material powerwhich civilized nations have attained to. Thework should be one to last for ever; it shouldnot commence
with a canal with locks, likethe magnificent Caledonian canal,
it must be areally oceanic canal, without a lock, a freepassage from sea to sea, across which thecourse of the navigation will be modified, butnot interrupted
by the difference in height andnon-coincidence of the
tides.
Receive, I pray you, sir, the expression ofmy great
consideration. Yours, &c,
Alexander von Humboldt
Edward Cullen, Strand, London.