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Above we show a highly creative chart of Central America including the states of Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua & Costa Rica, the territories of Belise & Mosquito, with parts of Mexico, Yucatan & New Granada : shewing the proposed routes between the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans by way of Tehuantepeque, Nicaragua & Panama / engraved from the original drawing of John Baily. It was made in 1850.
Central America.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Cover title: Baily's map of Central America. "With additions from the latest surveys of the Admiralty, S. Moro, Col. Lloyd, Garella & cc." Includes four "vertical sections of the proposed canals between Lake Nicaragua & the Pacific Ocean" and notes. Caribbean reefs delineated and named. Accompanied by book: Baily, John. Central America. London: Trelawney Saunders, 1850. Scale [ca. 1:2,100,000] (W 960--W 790/N 70--N 180).
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