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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 72, 19 December 1844, Page 2

Cutting the New World in two.— We extract the following relative to the attempt to cut a canal through the Isthmus of Panama, already begun by the company chartered by -the Government of Ne~w Granada.—

“ This process, it seems, is begun. The Canal Company, chartered by the Government of New Granada, have commenced excavating their big ditch, through the Isthmus of Panama, and in a few years, whale ships, instead of rounding Cape Horn, will pass from ocean to ocean, through the mountains which Pizarro and his followers found such difficulty in climbing over. The line of the canal, however, follows a less rugged route than they did. The country through which it passes has a mean elevation of only thirty-seven feet above the level of the sea at high tide. The entire length of the canal will be about forty-nine miles, of which twelve and half miles only will be excavated, the rivers Charges, Graude, supplying the necessary navigation for the remainder of the distance. There will be a sufficient depth of water for ships of fourteen hundred tons. It is supposed that within five years the continents will be divorced, and every thing prepared for celebrating the nuptials between the two oceans,” —Halifax Herald ,