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Scientific American, Vol. 80, No. 7 (February 1899) (1899)

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oa dam would rise 60 feet above the up of the harbor until in 1895 the once capacious har- rock, and build up an impervious dam in the ordinary bor with its low water depth of 30 feet has shrunk to a water surface of the San Juan at that point and would way, for he proposed to make a high,… … way to the sea,but by maintained by the a direct route across THBOWN UP BY DBEDGES AT WOBK IN CANAL. RAILROAD BUNS VIEW SHOWING SPOIL BANK use of dredges. The the intervening AT BASE OF BANE. company's proposi- © 1899 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.

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