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1822. June 21.
Junctiana Proposal.
Proposal
Novr. 24.1823
Copy sent to M.Barrio this day.viz. from p.1. to p.33.

For the junction of the two seas, the Atlantic and
the Pacific, by means of a Joint Stock company,
to be styled The Junctiania Company.

§.1. Grounds of expectation respecting the practicability of the proposed junction

The most recent. as well as most determinate
grounds, rest, it is believed, on the authority of the work,
intituled "Memoirs of the Mexican Revolution &c" by
William Davis Robinson, in two volumes 8vo London
1820: the Author, a citizen of the United States, a gentleman
of good character, well known to the Legation
of his own State here in London. In volume II. p.263,
Chapter XIII is devoted to this subject.

It speaks (II.269.) of the measure in question
as being known to have been a favourite measure
of the last of the two Pitts. It certainly was in the
contemplation of General Miranda, whose enterprize
was undertaken under the protection of that Minister.
It was from Miranda thet the Edinburgh Review
derived the principal part of the information contained
in its article on the subject Ao. 1810.

Being so long posterior to Humboldt's great
work, this of Mr. Robinson speaks of course (p.265)
of the nine several supposed lines of junction mentioned
in that universally known work: but, by Humboldt,
in making the number of them so considerable,
physical possibility is alone taken into consideration:
length of voyage in respect of time, and consequently
prospect of net profit, not being taken into
the account: to which latter purpose, if the reports
given by Mr. Robinson are to be depended upon, the
nine will be found reduced to one.

Nothing can be encouraging than the
expectations held out by this account of his. Three spots , it
is true, are mentioned, But, of the three, taking the — the two seas, (p.287) and the only chance depending on the existence of some ravine deep enough to afford a practicable passage for a cut.
matter upon the face of his account of it, the one
from Porto Bello in the Atlantic to Panama in the
Pacific, is decidely impracticable: another, namely
from the port formed by the River Guasacualto in the
Atlantic to Tehuantepee in the Pacific, not worth a thought
in comparicon of the third: a chain of mountains running between the

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Date_1	1822-06-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	junctiana proposal
Folio number	265	Info in main headings field	junctiana proposal
Image	001	Titles	[[titles::proposal / for the junction of the two seas - the atlantic and the pacific, by means of a joint stock company, to be styled the junctiania [sic] company / 1 grounds of expectation respecting the practicability of the proposed junction]]
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	"novr 24 1823 copy sent to m barrio this day - viz from fo.1 to fo. 33"	ID Number	34853
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