The Panama Canal

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goverment abandoned
its interest in the canal but in the early 19 th century the books of the
Germam scientist Alexander von Humboldt brang back the interest in the project
of the canal, and in 1819the Spanish goverment formally athorized the
construction of a canal and the creation of a company to build it. Nothing
came of this effort, however, and the revolt of the spanish colonies soon took
control of possible canal sites out of spanish hands . The republics of
Central America tried to interest groups in the United States and Europe in
building a canal, and it became a subject of perennial debate in the congress
of the United States. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 and the rush
of would-be miners started the United States interest in digging the canal.
Various surveys made between 1850 and 1875 indicated that only two routes were
practical, the one across Panama and that across Nicargua. In 1876 an
international company was organized. Two years later it ...

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