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1. Then we stopped at the ancient theatre of Epidaurus, then at the Isthmus of Corinth
2. learned the quickest way across the isthmus
3. Even when at last convinced that they were different, be still flattered himself that those rich countries were at no great distance; and in a subsequent voyage, accordingly, went in quest of them along the coast of Terra Firma, and towards the Isthmus of Darien
4. It was the sacred thirst of gold that carried Ovieda, Nicuessa, and Vasco Nugnes de Balboa, to the Isthmus of Darien ; that carried Cortes to Mexico, Almagro and Pizarro to Chili and Peru
5. concept of a railroad across the Isthmus most advantageous, and
6. ” If a catastrophic runoff from the northern ice cap deglaciation had favored a western direction, it could have caused the Mediterranean to rise rapidly enough to breach the Bosporus in the north through some earthquake-caused crack in the narrow, eighteen-mile isthmus of hills that separated the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles from the lake-land (Black Sea) area
7. They would be traveling by land all the way, so they planned to go across the mountains toward the south and proceed along the southern coast where the terrain tended to be dry, and they would not reach the jungle of the isthmus until the early winter when it was the dry season
8. There are two very large landmasses connected by a narrow isthmus in the middle
9. Few people are aware, for instance, that in 1534, King Charles V of Spain had ordered the first topographical studies for the possible construction of a channel across the Isthmus of Panama
10. construction of an intercontinental channel through the Isthmus of Panama
11. The Great Sea of the North continued to pour out over the low-lying isthmus that separated it from its southern cousin
12. The Great Sea of the North continued to pour out over the low-lying isthmus that separated it
13. The formation of the Isthmus had
14. armadillos came north with the formation of the Isthmus of
15. I could see the Atatürk Bridge spanning the Bosphorus and the smaller Galata Bridge crossing the isthmus where I needed to go, but what was really bothering me was the fact that I hadn’t heard a peep out of the freighter
16. immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold,
17. "I don't have to tell you, sir," Ned Land replied, "that the Red Sea is just as landlocked as the gulf, since the Isthmus of Suez hasn't been cut all the way through yet; and even if it was, a boat as secretive as ours wouldn't risk a canal intersected with locks
18. In the days of the Ptolemies and the Roman emperors, it was a great commercial artery for the world, and when its isthmus has been cut through, it will completely regain that bygone importance that the Suez railways have already brought back in part
19. But since I had no hope of studying these zoophytes in the seaports of the Levant, from which we were separated by the insuperable Isthmus of Suez, I had to be content with observing them in the waters of the Red Sea
20. "And for the sake of archaeology, let's hope that sooner or later such excavations do take place, once new towns are settled on the isthmus after the Suez Canal has been cut
21. "But isn't that isthmus only composed of quicksand?"
22. Nautilus had just cleared the Isthmus of Suez
23. “Like many another Sea-struck Lad, bound to a Home he hated, a Father he fretted o’er, a Mother to make him mutter under his Breath, I read Dampier’s New Voyage Round the World an’ dreamt o’ driftin’ from a Jamaican Plantation to Campeachy, o’er the Isthmus with Buccaneers, back to Virginia, ’round Cape Horn, across the Pacific to the Philippines, an’ thence to the East Indies, Land o’ incredible Riches, Jewels, an’ Spices, an’ strange slant-eyed brown-skinn’d Boys in Turbans an’ with bare Breasts (for e’en then, at the tender Age o’ Thirteen, I had forsworn all Womankind, havin’ been cruelly spurn’d by me first True Love in Oxfordshire! An’ lucky ’twas, too, fer a Boy bound to Sea fer seven Years!)
24. While he was engaged in winning plunder, a little rumor had come stealthily across the isthmus, had floated among the islands and stolen aboard the ships
25. “How may you do this thing? The city is strongly guarded with walls and troops, and the way across the isthmus is nigh impassable but for the burro trail
26. The merchant class soon dominated all the isthmus
27. Here, one-tenth of all the produce of the land was stored, waiting for the next plate fleet, when it would be carried on donkey-back across the isthmus to be loaded on the ship
28. At last, under pressure, Don Juan dragged himself from church long enough to send five hundred soldiers for an ambush on the road across the isthmus
29. Pizarro’s army would have been halfway across the isthmus, by this, to meet the oncoming buccaneers
30. He reached into his memory for the speeches he had built on his way across the isthmus
31. They carried all of the treasure with them across the isthmus on the backs of mules
32. In some few cases, however, as by the breaking of an isthmus and the consequent irruption of a multitude of new inhabitants into an adjoining sea, or by the final subsidence of an island, the process of extinction may have been rapid
33. Prestwich, in his admirable Memoirs on the eocene deposits of England and France, is able to draw a close general parallelism between the successive stages in the two countries; but when he compares certain stages in England with those in France, although he finds in both a curious accordance in the numbers of the species belonging to the same genera, yet the species themselves differ in a manner very difficult to account for considering the proximity of the two areas, unless, indeed, it be assumed that an isthmus separated two seas inhabited by distinct, but contemporaneous faunas
34. Changes of level in the land must also have been highly influential: a narrow isthmus now separates two marine faunas; submerge it, or let it formerly have been submerged, and the two faunas will now blend together, or may formerly have blended
35. What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone
36. So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow
37. From the frozen regions of the North to the Isthmus of Darien, she has not a port fit for naval equipment or repair, except Halifax; and if, as the opponents of the Navy seem to think certain, and I hope their opinions may be realized, we shall, in the event of war, deprive her of that, she will be without the means of repairing a disabled vessel in our seas
38. It would seem with the force of fifty-five thousand regular troops, we are to conquer all the residue of North America; exterminate every tawny infidel this side of the Isthmus of Darien, and defend a seacoast many hundred miles in extent from the incursions of the enemy! This is truly a gigantic project
39. — —, to the Pacific, by the isthmus of Panama and the western coast of South America, xli, 358