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Scientific American, Vol. 80, No. 5 (1899) (1899)
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llowed up in purchas- ing and placing along the line the necessary plant, in constructing shelter for 15,000 laborers, and building the necessary workshops and hospitals. The firs opening up of the surface soil induced an appallin: amount of sickness, and the enormous floods of the Chagres River… … the traffic, the question of the completion or abandon- ment of tre Panama scheme becomes of supreme im- © 1899 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.Internet Archive · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
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