The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 29
the mis-management of the funds. One of these wasthe control of the Chagres River, which dis-charged some 75,000 cubic feet of water persecond. Another trouble was the action of thesilt, which tended to fill up the canal almost asfast as it was excavated unless special precau-tions were taken to… … FERDINAND DE LESSEPS IN HIS CHILDREN S PONY-CART. its victims by the hundreds. This white ghostwas nothing more than the miasmatic fog ormist rising from the disturbed soil. The hot,moist climate of the isthmus is naturally weak-ening to those not accustomed to it. Rank vege-tation springs up in a…
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