Note 46 — Chapter I · NICARAGUA: BOUNDARIES, TOPOGRAPHY, LAKES, RIVERS, PORTS, CLIMATE, POPULATION, PRODUCTIONS, MINES, ETC., ETC.

Late accounts represent that the sea has broken through the sand bank or spit called “Punta Arenas,” which forms the outer protection of the harbor, and that the entrance of the port is rapidly closing up. So rapidly has this process gone on, that the United States war vessel “Susquehanna,” lying in the harbor, was got out with difficulty, and only after relieving herself of her guns. The British mail steamers, it is also stated, now find it impossible to enter, and apprehensions are entertained that the harbor is entirely ruined.