Excerpt from The Three Americas Railway: An International and Intercontinental Enterprise, Outlined in Numerous Formal Disquisitions and Five Elaborate Essays

Respecting the particular route which should be selected for the road, that question need not now be Seriously dis cussed. Still, so far at least as the United States are con cerned, I have a very decided preference for a perfectly direct track all along down the twenty-eighth degree of longitude west from Washington, corresponding to the one hundred and third degree of longitude west from Green wich, from the southern boundary of British America to the northern frontier of Mexico. The line thus indicated, from which I would only with reluctance deviate so much as a hairbreadth, either to the right hand or to the left, but would follow with such exactitude that the roadbed, from the extreme north to the extreme south of our own repub lic, would be as rectilineal as the straightest street in the most quadrangular City, intersects Dakota, Nebraska, Colo rado, New Mexico, and the western part of Texas. There bridging and crossing the Rio Grande, I would proceed in an equally uncurved course, that is to say, a bee-line, to the City of Mexico; thence as nearly midland as might be found most advisable, through Guatemala and the other Central American republics, to the Isthmus of Darien; thence into South America, passing eastward of the Andes, felling the forests and furrowing up the surfaces 'of Columbia, Ecuador, Eastern Peru, and Bolivia; and thence, in a nearly'straight line, to Rosario, Buenos Ayres, and such other important points in the Argentine Republic as the present needs of postal facilities and trade and travel may demand.

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