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The Panama guide (1912)

Collins, John Owen, 1879- · Mount Hope, C. Z., Quartermaster's Department, I.C.C. Press · leaf 186

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ch, spanning a space of 50 feet, 35 feet high at the crown and 25 feet at the spring. So flat an arch is said to be an en- gineering "sport," and it is pointed out as one of the sights of the city. Arches almost as flat will be found under the choir of the church of San Francisco, and in the ruins… … FLAT ARCH IN CHURCH OF SANTO DOMINGO PANAMA. In the first years of the decline in Panama, before it was fully realized just what the abandonment of the trade route across the isthmus meant, the Society Ruins of Jesuit of Jesus began to build a college and convent Church and in Panama. The first…

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