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Roosevelt was intrigued by the military and commercial possibilities of a canal across the isthmus, cutting 8,000 miles off a New York-San Francisco voyage.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
Paterson persuaded the Scottish parliament to establish a new enterprise based on England’s East India Company to found a Scottish colony on the narrow isthmus joining North and South America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
The waterway was cleaved across the most narrow section of the Panamanian isthmus in the late 1800s and early 1900s, by French and then U.S. engineers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
Perhaps to that end, López Obrador announced Friday that Mexico plans to extend a cargo train line that spans a narrow isthmus its the south to the Guatemalan border.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
On January 16,1939, Matthew W Stirling took an early-morning walk through the wet, buggy forest of Veracruz state, on the Gulf Coast side of Mexico’s southern isthmus.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The Crimean Peninsula extends south from Ukraine’s mainland, with road connections on two isthmuses, one of which is less than 1 mile wide, and by a bridge from a narrow spit.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
Marine isthmuses, cutting of, 517; its difficulties, 518; sometimes done by nature, 519.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
During a long interval of rest, from the length of time allowed to the above processes, the tendency would often prove effective, both in forming, by accumulation of matter, isthmuses, and in keeping open channels.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
Great masses of vegetation, piers, causeways, isthmuses of grass offered the illusion of growing out of the ocean bottom, linking themselves to the land, extending too late the lost coast far out into the Pacific.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
They made islands and peninsulas and isthmuses of green that were odd and freaky.
From A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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