12 JUNE 1897, page 17
The Nicaragua Canal.*
THERE are few subjects more interesting than the history of the mountainous isthmus that joins North and South America, and lifts a precipitous, and so far impregnable,. barrier......
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FIFTY YEARS' REMINISCENCES OF INDIA.* FEw men living now, we suppose, have had the varied ex- periences of Indian life such as befel Colonel Pollok, dating as they do from the......