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1822. June 21.
Junctianan Proposal.
Proposal
Novr. 24.1823
Copy sent to M.M.Barrio this day.voz. 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.
The most recent. as well as most determinate
grounds, reat, 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 Lagation
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 lass 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.
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[[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]] |
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"novr 24 1823 copy sent to m barrio this day - viz from fo.1 to fo. 33" |
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