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Identifier: gateofpacific00pimb (find matches)
Title: The gate of the Pacific
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Pim, Bedford, 1826-1886
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Publisher: London : L. Reeve & co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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present Government. Junior United Service Club, S.W., July 10, 1862. My Lord Duke,—The great importance of an independentroute to British Columbia is sufficiently indicated by yourGraces speech in the House of Lords on the 4th inst. I do myself the honour to solicit your Graces attention to anew route through Central America, described in the enclosedabstract of a paper, read by me at the Royal GeographicalSociety, four months ago.te Its advantages are :— 1st. The postal service would be secure. 112nd. English interests generally would be independent of the Panama Railway. 3rd. There would be a great highway in British interests,offering the shortest, healthiest, safest, and cheapestroute to New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia, andJapan. 4th. British Columbia could be reached four days earlier than by any existing route. 5th. Without the responsibility of a national possession,the adjacent lands (which before the emancipation ofthe negroes exported the finest Sea Island cotton, and
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