Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 430
ges igi2.] THE STORY OF PANAMA 307 can do, you will ask me why we do not dig therest of the canal that way, instead of botheringwith locks and dams, and I can give you the an-swer in five words: because of the Chagres River.This troublesome stream comes down from the in the big lake, that will have… … CULEBKA CUT, LOOKING NORTH.When completed, the bottom of the canal will be forty-five feet below the level shown in this picture. San Bias hills, strikes the line of the canal at aplace called Bas Obispo, and zigzags across itto Gatun. And though we can dredge a channelup to Gatun, or scoop out the…
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