Note A — THE NICARAGUA AND PANAMA ROUTES TO THE PACIFIC.
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The Panama Star and Herald reports that $68,000,000 of the total appropriation of $120,000,000 have already been expended. The preliminary surveys alone cost 7,000,000 francs. After the plan of Monsieur de Lesseps the canal will be thirty feet deep, one hundred and twenty feet wide, and about forty-six miles long.