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Identifier: earthitsinhabita941recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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Railways completed. projected. Roads. . 15 MUes. of the steep intervening Cordilleras, as well as the dangerous rapids at Honda,liut the ravages of the prevalent marsh fevers, followed by civil wars, arrested theprogress of the works, which, however, have recently been resumed. Meanwhilea more direct route was projected from Bogota westwards to the Magdalena atCambao, midway between Ambalema and Honda. But in this direction the onlyroad hitherto opened is a mere bridle-path, while all the other routes become BOGOTA AND nS ENVIRONS
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TOPOGRAPHY OF COLOMBIA. 185 impracticable after heavy rains. So recently as 1889 the transport of a mulesload weighing about 245 pounds, which usually costs £1 from Honda toBogota, came to £3, and took from ten to forty and even sixty days, according tothe weather. Hence railway schemes are now more in favour with the public, and threelines have especially been proposed to put the capital of Colombia in communica-tion with the rest of the world. One runs northward through Zipaquira, Chiquin-quira, and Yelez to the middle Magdalena near the Sogamoso confluence ; a secondtrends north-westwards along Poncets original route towards the Rio Xegro con-fluence ; while the third follows the course of the Funza, south-westwards to theMagdalena at Girardot. The Zipaquira project was begun in 1892, the only otherline possessed by Bogota being a short section common to two future routes atpresent terminating at Facatativa, on the edge of the plateau. This place was one of the old Muysca strongh

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