text:  The East India and Hudson's Bay Companies the traders to China and the Indian archipelago the Australian and New Zealand colonists together with their connexions at home--in a word all those who are desirous of shortening the tedious and perilous navigation round Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope--would be benefited by the construction of a railroad; which by making Panama an entrepot of supplies for the western shores of America and the islands in the Pacific either in direct communication with Great Britain or the West India colonies our manufacturers would participate in the profits of an increased demand for European commodities which necessarily must follow the accomplishment of so grand a design