With his men he penetrated across the isthmus of Panama, and committed great havoc among the Spanish shipping.
From the top of a tree which he climbed while on the isthmus he obtained his first view of the Pacific, and resolved "to sail an English ship in these seas.
They drew large salaries and lived like princes, while, for want of proper management the money expended for labor and machinery on the isthmus was for the most part thrown away.
The violent storms of the preceding winter had broken through the narrow isthmus by which Sandy Hook was connected with the continent, and had converted the peninsula into an island.
M'Clean had taken possession of a peninsula on the eastern side of Penobscot, and had intrenched the isthmus connecting it with the continent.
On the other side of the Isthmus the process would have to be repeated in a reverse manner.
Only the amphibians of the lowlands of the isthmus have been sampled adequately.
In the isthmusthis species is known only from the humid forests of the Gulf lowlands; it is also known from Boca del Rio, Veracruz, and from Teapa and Villa Hermosa, Tabasco.
This small toad apparently is restricted to the Pacific lowlands from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastward to Guatemala.
Topographic profile of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec showing major localities along the Trans-isthmian Highway and major types of vegetation.
Field Studies in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec I first visited the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and collected on the Pacific lowlands of the isthmus in July, 1955.
Of these, Microbatrachylus pygmaeus also occurs in scattered humid environments to the west of the isthmus on the Pacific lowlands.
In February and March of 1956 my wife and I concentrated our efforts in the central region between the Rio Jaltepec and Matias Romero, but also made several trips across the isthmus to gather ecological data in the dry season.
The purpose of this paper is to make known the species of amphibians living in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, to describe the environments in which they live, and to discuss their distribution in the isthmus.
The other 27 species (75 per cent) either do not cross the isthmus from east to west or from north to south; thus, probably in one way or another the isthmus presents a barrier to their distribution.
Thus, it is evident that the Isthmus of Tehuantepec presents a great barrier to dispersal of these groups of amphibians.
Himalayan slopes; Indo-China to the Isthmus of Kra; China; Formosa; Parts of Malaysia.
This section is again separated from the Oceanic section by the Isthmus of Kra--the Malay Peninsula belonging ethnically to the insular Malay world.
If she don't go regularly crazy at last she'll have another attack of fever, hanging round the isthmus waiting for Perkins.
But my wife discovered my intention; and when I reached Callao, I heard that she had followed me, by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and that probably she would anticipate me in Mazatlan, where we were to stop.
An isosceles triangle with its base within the Arctic circle, it tapers to a narrow isthmus towards the equator.
Nearly six hundred of such are catalogued by Mr. Bancroft, in his Native Races of the Pacific States, as spoken between Alaska and the Isthmus of Panama.
The ancient graves of the Isthmus of Panama have yielded immense numbers of gold relics of the same class, though inferior to the finest examples described above.
He went by way of California and theIsthmus of Panama.
His services were accepted and he crossed the Isthmus of Panama, sailing from New York, and proceeded from California to Utah, where he arrived in February, 1858.
And thirdly, and lastly, I should wish to see England in possession of a canal through theIsthmus of Suez.
The next time Charley saw him was on the Isthmus of Panama.
On the Isthmus men of many nationalities combined like a vast family; each man, from laborer to engineer, doing his stint, without favoritism and without graft, toward the big result.
However, in 1849 and for many years afterward, the Panama Canal across the Isthmus was not visible to the eye.
During half the year this was the place where people crossing the Isthmus changed from boat to mule-back, but during the other half Cruces, six miles above, was the junction.
Nineteen canal and seven railroad projects for the Isthmus region are submitted in the report to the Senate.
Lloyd to survey the Isthmus with a view to a rail-and-water route across.
Illustration: The route across the isthmus in 1849.
That was all very nice, and now the Isthmus of Panama was only two days ahead, across the Caribbean Sea; but the report spread that the barometer was falling and a change in weather evidently was due.
The voyage down to the Isthmus was rated at seven days from New Orleans.
A canal across this Isthmus of Darien, as the old navigators termed it, has been talked of ever since 1520, when Charles the Fifth of Spain ordered a survey made.
All the passengers were on the lookout for the Isthmus of Panama; they were tremendously eager to get ashore and start across the Isthmus for the Pacific Ocean.
This, then, was Chagres at the mouth of the Chagres River, the beginning of the Isthmus trip to the Pacific.
Many others choose to cross theIsthmus of Panama, and reach the Pacific that way.
It is highly probable that the whole population on the south side of the Isthmus was reckoned as belonging to Beaubassin.
Several persons answering to the name of Read came to the Isthmus soon after the Expulsion.
The Seigneur La Valliere was, no doubt, the most prominent man, politically, on the Isthmus during the French period.
Four brothers named Sharp came to the Isthmus from Cornwallis, N.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence arrived at the Isthmus with a strong force, consisting of the 48th Regiment, and three hundred men of the 45th Regiment.
The Etters and Wethereds were on the Isthmus very shortly after 1755.
The trade between Quebec and Louisbourg and the settlements on the Isthmus was carried on through the Port of Bay Verte, and from there the farmers of Chignecto shipped their cattle and farm products.
The Tidnish River, and several streams emptying into the Bay Verte, drain the Isthmus on its northern slope.
The Isthmus of Chignecto separates the waters of the Bay of Fundy from those of Bay Verte, and constitutes the neck of land which saves Nova Scotia from being an island.
The first Protestant ministers on the Isthmus were Episcopalians.
The first white men to visit the Isthmus with a view to trade and settlement came from Port Royal in the summer of 1612.
The last immigrants who came to the vicinity of the Isthmus were from Ireland.
As an isthmus connects two bodies of land, so a strait connects two bodies of water.
An isthmus is a neck of land joining two larger bodies of land.
Preparations were urged on both sides; Sparta summoned her allies to muster their contingents on the Isthmus for the invasion of Attica, nearly all the mainland states joining the Peloponnesian league.
The invaders were met but hardly checked at Thermopylæ, where Leonidas and the immortal three hundred fell; all Greece north of the Isthmus of Corinth was in their hands, including Athens.
The Persian dominion extended undisputed as far as the Isthmus of Suez.
On his return to theisthmus he is said to have narrowly escaped from the rising tide of the Red Sea.
It may not, however, be out of place to offer some proofs as to the value which Bonaparte set on the valley of the Nile and the Isthmus of Suez.
Canvassers are now everywhere moving on behalf of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Suez.
D'Aunay continued his work of improving Port Royal and surrounding country, and the colony he founded was the parent of those large settlements that in the course of time stretched as far as the isthmus of Chignecto.
Porto Bello, to use the Anglicized form, became the great shipping port on the north side of the isthmus for the trade with Peru.
There are but two outlets from the Crimea; the first is by the isthmus at Perekop, the second is by the bridge over the Putrid Sea at Tchongar.
One of these is the main western arm of the Nile, which reaches the Mediterranean near Alexandria; the other is the Wady Tumilat, which runs from the Isthmus of Suez through the biblical land of Goshen to the Nile valley.
Thence they were transferred across the isthmus to a ship which skirted the shores of Epirus and landed them at Brundisium.
This region was also the isthmus lying between the sea and the desert that connected Asia with Africa, and the ancient empires of Egypt and Babylonia.
As you travel through them southwards, the country becomes more and more narrow till you come at last to the Isthmus of Panama, which joins North and South America.
The people of the United States are now very busy building a canal through this isthmusto join together the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
So it has come about that on the Isthmus of Panama there are now many American children whose fathers are busy on the canal and have brought their families to live with them there.
He formed large engineering plans, a plan to drain the Pontine marches and the Fucine lake, a plan to form a new channel for the Tiber, another to improve the roads, another to cut the Isthmus of Corinth.
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