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Definition of Isthmus of Panama
1. Noun. The isthmus that connects Central America and South America; was formerly called the Isthmus of Darien. "Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Darien"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Isthmus Of Panama
Literary usage of Isthmus of Panama
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1910)
"The contention that merchandise coming into the United States from the Canal Zone
in the Isthmus of Panama could not be subjected, as is attempted by the ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"On the Proposed Canal Across the Isthmus of Panama. By Captain BEDFORD PIM, KN,
MP The author said the whole world agreed that the accomplishment of inter- ..."
3. Trade and Navigation Between Spain and the Indies in the Time of the Hapsburgs by Clarence Henry Haring (1918)
"CHAPTER VIII THE Isthmus of Panama IN September, 1513, Vasco Nuñez de Balboa,
looking southward from the heights of Darién, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"Assuming that different species crossed the Isthmus of Panama in Miocene times,
... This is exactly what has taken place at the Isthmus of Panama with the ..."
5. South America: Observations and Impressions by James Bryce Bryce (1912)
"... CHAPTER I THE Isthmus of Panama SOUTH AMERICA is bounded at its northern end
by an isthmus and at its southern by a strait. They are the two gateways by ..."
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