La terre et ses habitants .. . il con-.?umers de l'Amérique du Sud complètement dans les bandes des producteurs de NorthAmerica. Dans le but de développer ces plans, les commerçants américains, sous l'égide d'un bureau des républiques américaines installées à Washington, ont déjà organisé de nombreuses lignes de steamers à plusieurs reprises entre New York, Boston, Philadelphie, Baltimore, San Francisco, Et tous les plus importants pointsalong la côte sud-américaine.- de nouvelles lignes sont établies chaque année, et atle Congrès panaméricain de 1889 les délégués des républiques du Sud étaient DES PROJETS DE COULOIR

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The earth and its inhabitants .. . he con-.?umers of South America completely in the bands of the producers of NorthAmerica. With a view to developing these plans, the United States traders, sup-ported by a bureau of the American republics installed at Washington, havealready organised numerous lines of steamers to ply regularly between New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco, and all the more important pointsalong the South American seaboard.- New lines are yearly established, and atthe Pan-American Congress of 1889 the delegates of the Southern republics were HALLWAY PROJECTS. 51 assured that the coramuuication between North and South would soon become stillmore frequent and rapid. Nor is this all: although the sinuous form of the Central American isthmuses, their oblique disposition to the meridian, and the easy communications by water Fig-. 17.—ZoxE3 OP Distances between London oe Paeis and South Ameeica. Scale 1 : 60, 000, 1X10. lOO West op Green.vlch 15 Days. 15 to 20 Days. Distances by time. [ZD. 20 to 25Days. 23 to 30 30 Days to 2 Months Days. 2 Mouths. aud upwards. Regular steam service. Railways. Projected Andean line. l, -.>40 Miles. along both shores render absolutely useless a longitudinal railway between thevolcanic plateaux of Guatemala and the Colombian forests of the Atrato valley, theUnited States Government has given countenance to the project of such a trunk 52 SOUTH AMERICA—TUE ANDES REGIONS. line, as being of the first importance for connecting in a single system theinnumerable railroads of Xorth America with the few that have hitherto been con-structed in the southern continent. In Congress a chart was even exhibitedshowing tracings of the main lines which were, as if by enchantment, to bringinto close proximity the great cities of the New World now separated by journeysof weeks or montlis. But since then little has been heard of these grand schemes, although partial survejs have been made of some of the sections. According t

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