Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 432
dur-ing this nine-mile passage through the hills be-tween Bas Obispo and Pedro Miguel (whichevery American on the isthmus calls Peter Ma-gill), for, at the Culebra Cut, it must be dug andblasted out of solid rock. Row above row ofsteam- or compressed-air drills are boring deep igi^-1 THE STORY OF… … UNLOADING ROCK ON THE TORRO POINT BREAKWATER, AT THEPACIFIC END OF THE CANAL. and twice every day, when the men have left thecut for lunch, or to go home, hundreds of re-ports go rattling off like a bombardment. Thenthey bring up the great steam-shovels to dig outthe shattered rock with their…
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