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When engineers later advised Roosevelt that such a canal would cost too much, Tacho offered to settle for a transisthmian highway.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the auspices of the government, M. Lesseps commenced a transisthmian canal, which would open communication between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

From A Short History of France by Parmele, Mary Platt

Vast commercial and political consequences will follow the opening of the transisthmian waterway.

From The American Type of Isthmian Canal Speech by Hon. John Fairfield Dryden in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1906 by Dryden, John F. (John Fairfield)