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Excerpt from The Isthmian Canal: Presented at the Twentieth Annual Session of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress Held at Denver, Colo, August 16-21, 1909 In 1838 a concession was granted to a French company for the construction of highways, railroads, or a canal across the Isthmus. The Government of France became interested, and sent an engineer, Napoleon Garella, to report on the enterprise. He advocated a canal as the only adequate means of communication across the Isth mus. The concession was, however, allowed to lapse without per forming any work, on account of lack of capital. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.