text: " The French minister also read extracts from a paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences by an American gentleman named Warren advocating the practicability of a canal by means of the rivers Vinotinto Beverardino and Farren after which he enthusiastically exclaimed that should this great work ever be accomplished--and in his own mind he had no doubt that some day or other it would--then the value of Oceana would be greatly increased and France would have many reasons to congratulate herself on the possession of them