CHAPTER XXV

.—Departure for the United States—An American Hotel in

Granada—Los Cocos—Voyage through the Lake—Descent of the River—San Juan—Chagres—Home—Outline of Nicaraguan Constitution—Conclusion of Narrative, 633

APPENDIX.

## CHAPTER I .—General Account of Nicaragua; its Boundaries, Topography,

Lakes, Rivers, Ports, Climate, Population, Productions, Mines, etc., etc., 639

## CHAPTER II .—The Proposed Inter-Oceanic Canal; Early Explorations;

Survey of Colonel Childs in 1851; Various Lines proposed from Lake Nicaragua to the Pacific, etc., etc., 657

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