Isthmus of Darien

NOUN
  1. the isthmus that connects Central America and South America; was formerly called the Isthmus of Darien
    Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Darien
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  • Atlantic side of the Isthmus of Darien and secured from the government of Nicaragua the privilege of crossing the Isthmus for a transportation system through its territory, and then established a line of steamers on the Pacific to San Francisco. My Memories of Eighty Years
  • After much talk, Captain Drake arranged to put them on shore, so that they would go on to the Isthmus of Darien, where there were more of them in the forests; and they promised to prepare these to assist Captain Drake, when he should come there. Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main
  • The Isthmus of Darien, which he would have to cross, is not over sixty miles wide. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III
  • Difference of the Mollusca on the east and west coast of the Isthmus of Darien. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
  • Panama, Wafer joined the party of malcontents who left Captain Sharp and returned on foot across the Isthmus of Darien. The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers
  • We are now prepared to understand some essential points in the life of the groups of Indians occupying the region of the Cordilleras, both north and south of the Isthmus of Darien, all the way from Zuñi to The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
  • Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Darien
  • But the Spaniards did not know that in the part where they were, it was only a narrow neck of land (which you know is called an Isthmus) that separated them from another vast ocean; and this, when they discovered the ocean on the other side, was called the Isthmus of Darien. Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia
  • America is divided into north and south, and these two peninsulas are joined by the Isthmus of Darien. A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c.
  • With this small company, arriving by night, he fell suddenly upon Nombre de Dios, a principal port of embarkation on the Isthmus of Darien. England under the Tudors
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