Letter

Scruggs to Hamilton Fish, July 17, 1875

No. 48. Mr. Scruggs to Mr. Fish.

No. 114.]

Sir: I inclose herewith, for the information of the Department, a printed copy of a translation from Spanish to English of an elaborate and somewhat curious report made to the last Colombian Congress on the subject of the proposed interoceanic ship-canal.

Although this report is evidently fanciful in many respects, it is, nevertheless, interesting as showing the history of the proposition to unite the two oceans by water communication, and besides contains some statements which are conceived to be of interest in the United States.

I have, &c.,

WILLIAM L. SCRUGGS.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.