Illustrated History of the Panama Railroad #234248

Pursuant to a resolution offered by the Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, in the Senate of the United States, in the year 1835, the President, General Andrew Jackson, appointed Mr. Charles Biddle, formerly of Philadelphia,°then of Ten nessee, as a commissioner to visit the different routes on the Continent of America best adapted for inter-oceanic com munication, and to report thereon, with reference to their value to the commercial interests of the United States.