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Title: The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Aspinall, Algernon E. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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00,000 127,000,000 (estimate) (to date) * Being increased to 36. f Being increased to 137. X Original canal 25 feet deep. HISTORY. It is believed that the Isthmus of Panamawas first visited in 1499 by Alonso de Ojeda, who establisheda colony, which he called Nueva Andalucia, near Cartagena.Two years later Rodrigo Bastidas coasted along the SpanishMain as far as what is now Porto Bello, and in 1502Columbus, coasting from Almirante Bay, founded the colonyof Nombre de Dios in Porto Bello Bay. The settlementwas destroyed by Indians, but re-established in 1510 byDiego de Nicuesa, Governor of the Spanish Province ofCastilla del Oro, which included the countries which arenow Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. In the same yearMartin Fernandez de Enciso, with the survivors of NuevaAndalucia, founded the colony of Darien. After an insur-rection he was succeeded in command by Vasco Nunez deBalboa, who had accompanied Bastidas on his voyage in1501. In 1513 Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and
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