THE WIGGINS’ STORM.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1016, 2 April 1883, Page 4

THE WIGGINS’ STORM.

This is howl an .American journal described the proposed Wiggins tempest : “It Is to strike the Pacific coast at the Western extremity of the Isthmus of Nicaragua route, tearing tip the earth Oil its way so as to render the work of Constructing the Nicaragua; Canal mere child’s play. originally intended to bring bis, stem across the Isthmus of Parana*, but as M. de LessepS ; faffed to. make - liberal arrangements. wff.b him, he finally came to an; with the promoters of thp. Nicaragua scheme. On reaching the gulf the storm will, as has been said, follow the Gulf Stream. If, however, proper inducements are extended to the professor, he willhrrange to, the storm directly acrossthe, upper pnwfi of Florida, so as to facilitate the making' of a ship canal across that peninsula.,

* * « From Long Island the storm willprbceed to New England by the old route from sGreenport to Newport, and will ravage Rhode Island, Eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Nova Scotia. Professor Wiggins is as yet undecided as to whether he will send it to the North Pole, where it can do no harm, or whether he will launch it against Great Britain, but the probabilities are that' being a British subject, ho will spare the British Islands.”