famous Gatun locks. plains to us that this method of making the turns by right hand, past the foothills of Agua Clara to a shore a sharp angle, in a widened channel, is greatly pre- They consist of six great chambers, each 100 feet wide, line 15 miles in the distance. To the left the lake ex-… … ly across our the key to the course, and successful exe- THE FOUNDATIONS, DAM, AND REGULATING WORKS AT GATUN. they terminate cution of the opposite a similar ridge on the opposite side of the in pairs, and rising in three steps, of 28 feet, from the greatest and most useful engineering work of…
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