Excerpt from Historical Account of the Mischances in Regard to the Construction of a Railway Across the Republic of Honduras: The Failure of the Loans Solicited and the Principal Difficulties Which Have Occurred at Each Fresh Combination Attempted for the Completion of the Line

So much has been written, said, and declaimed on the subject of the construction of a Railway across the Republic of Honduras, so much has this interesting project been opposed, censured, and assailed, so many have been the embarrassments and sudden changes which the various projects formed for this purpose have experienced and undergone, so considerable the failures which have hitherto annihilated every effort to open that Railway, so unsatisfactory, not to say lamentable, the result of the loans contracted to meet the expenses of that costly work, and so various, extraordinary, and frequently injudicious, the public comments upon everything connected with this unfortunate undertaking - that any publication which tends to explain the real causes that have combined against the execution of the Railway across Honduras, meets a pressing necessity, and may serve as a starting-point for ascertaining whether there are still any means of imparting fresh impulse to the work by applying the lessons of the past and adopting a different course to conduct it in future.

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