03766cem a22005415a 4500 13494178 20250606204902.8 aj canzn cr ||||||||||| 040219s1850 enkdg a 0 eng d 13494178 7 cbc copycat u ncip 20 n-geogmaps acquire * shelf copy policy default ga31 2004-02-19 Preprocessor LCAP batch update 2025-06-01-04:00: LCAPM-779, LCAPM-893 2004629005 a 2100000 W0960000 W0790000 N0070000 N0180000 (OCoLC)16840086 NYP NYP OCL OCLCQ DLC lccopycat G4800 1850 .B3 4800 Baily, John, active 1811-1850. Map of Central America including the states of Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua & Costa Rica, the territories of Belise & Mosquito, with parts of Mexico, Yucatan & New Granada : shewing the proposed routes between the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans by way of Tehuantepeque, Nicaragua & Panama / engraved from the original drawing of John Baily. Baily's map of Central America Scale [ca. 1:2,100,000] (W 96°--W 79°/N 7°--N 18°). London : Trelawney Saunders, 1850. 1 map : col., dissected and mounted on linen ; 63 x 94 cm., folded in cover 24 x 13 cm. cartographic image cri rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia sheet nb rdacarrier "With additions from the latest surveys of the Admiralty, S. Moro, Col. Lloyd, Garella & cc." Accompanied by book: Baily, John. Central America. London: Trelawney Saunders, 1850. Caribbean reefs delineated and named. Cover title: Baily's map of Central America. Includes four "vertical sections of the proposed canals between Lake Nicaragua & the Pacific Ocean" and notes. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "John Baily was an Englishman who lived for many years in Central America. He was employed in 1837-38 by the government of Nicaragua to survey a potential canal route from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. This map, published in London in 1850, was accompanied by a book, Central America, published separately, which contained much of the detailed information that Baily gathered to make this map. The map shows four possible canal routes: one surveyed for the government of Costa Rica in 1848 by the Danish engineer Andres Oersted, Baily's own proposed route of 1837-38, a route across present-day Panama proposed in 1844 by the French engineer Napoleon Garella, and a route across Nicaragua favored by Prince (and later Emperor) Louis Napoleon of France. The drawings at the lower left highlight the engineering challenges posed by building a canal that would have to traverse inland hills and mountains and account for the different sea levels (caused by tides) on the Atlantic and Pacific sides of the canal. Baily's map and writings frequently were cited in later debates about where and how the canal should be built." World Digital Library. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Central America Maps, Physical. Central America Maps. Maps. lcgft https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2011026387 Central America. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu Copy 1 g4800 ma001000 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4800.ma001000 c GMD/CT ammem GMD/GNRLMAP ammem 20040305 wdl