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Book/Printed Material Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the practicability of a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the way of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. By Robert W. Shufeldt, captain United States Navy Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 42-6

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Title

  • Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the practicability of a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the way of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. By Robert W. Shufeldt, captain United States Navy

Other Title

  • Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 42-6

Names

  • United States Congress. Senate
  • Shufeldt, Robert Wilson
  • United States. Government Publishing Office, publisher, distributor
  • United States. Congress. Senate, author
  • United States. Department of the Navy

Created / Published

  • [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1872.

Headings

  • -  Zapotec Indians.--Zoque Indians
  • -  Agriculture
  • -  Canals
  • -  Civil engineering
  • -  Climate
  • -  Crops
  • -  Discoveries in geography
  • -  Discovery and exploration
  • -  Diseases
  • -  Earthquakes
  • -  Geological surveys
  • -  Hot springs
  • -  Housing
  • -  Hydrographic surveying
  • -  Insects
  • -  Canals, Interoceanic
  • -  Shipping
  • -  Labor supply
  • -  Language and languages
  • -  Livestock
  • -  Locks (Hydraulic engineering)
  • -  Mines and mineral resources
  • -  Political development
  • -  Population
  • -  Reptiles
  • -  Bodies of water
  • -  Rivers
  • -  Roads
  • -  Timber
  • -  Indigenous peoples
  • -  Building sites
  • -  Land use
  • -  Coatzacoalcos River (Mexico)
  • -  Isthmus of Tehuantepec
  • -  Mexico

Genre

  • Government publication
  • Executive department publications
  • Legislative materials

Medium

  • 1 online resource (151 pages). illustrations, maps, tables.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KF12
  • Y 1.42/2:6
  • Y 1.1/2:SERIAL 1480

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024881597

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

United States Congress. Senate, Robert Wilson Shufeldt, Publisher United States Government Publishing Office, Author United States Congress. Senate, and United States Department Of The Navy. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the practicability of a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the way of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. By Robert W. Shufeldt, captain United States Navy. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1872] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024881597/.

APA citation style:

United States Congress. Senate, Shufeldt, R. W., United States Government Publishing Office, P., United States Congress. Senate, A. & United States Department Of The Navy. (1872) Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the practicability of a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the way of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. By Robert W. Shufeldt, captain United States Navy. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024881597/.

MLA citation style:

United States Congress. Senate, et al. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the practicability of a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the way of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. By Robert W. Shufeldt, captain United States Navy. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1872] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024881597/>.