. Review of reviews and world's work. SIR GEN. HENRY L. ABBOT. capitalists to undertake the completion of the years later, General Abbot visited Panama andmade a personal study of the canal and the Isthmus,and remained a member of the Comit6 Technique until the new Panama Ca-nal Company sold itsproperty to the UnitedStates, in 1902. In pre-paring the presentwork. General Abbothas endeavored tocover every essentialelement bearing uponthe construction of thebest ijossible devoted somany years to a tech-nical study of the prob-lem, with unusual fa-cil
. Review of reviews and world's work. SIR GEN. HENRY L. ABBOT. capitalists to undertake the completion of the years later, General Abbot visited Panama andmade a personal study of the canal and the Isthmus,and remained a member of the Comit6 Technique until the new Panama Ca-nal Company sold itsproperty to the UnitedStates, in 1902. In pre-paring the presentwork. General Abbothas endeavored tocover every essentialelement bearing uponthe construction of thebest ijossible devoted somany years to a tech-nical study of the prob-lem, with unusual fa-cilities for obtaininginformation, GeneralAbbot is in a posi-tion to write an excep-tionally helpful trea-tise on this four problemswith which he deals in this book are the climate, theChagres River and the control of its floods, the disposalof the rainfall, and the question of the level of thecanal. The general believes that if proper sanitary pre-cautions were taken the yellow fever may be minimizedand the Isthmus greatly improved as a place of r
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