. Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad; together with a traveler's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad and its connections with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan, by sail and steam . BASALTIC PANAMA RAILROAD. 127 less growths of palm and the innumerable varieties of othertropical woods that interweave below them. After nearlythree miles of this, the beautiful undulating valley of Pa-raiso, or Paradise, is reached, surrounded by high coni-cal hills, where Nature, in wild profusion, seems t
. Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad; together with a traveler's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad and its connections with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan, by sail and steam . BASALTIC PANAMA RAILROAD. 127 less growths of palm and the innumerable varieties of othertropical woods that interweave below them. After nearlythree miles of this, the beautiful undulating valley of Pa-raiso, or Paradise, is reached, surrounded by high coni-cal hills, where Nature, in wild profusion, seems to have ex-pended her choicest wealth. From Paraiso the road con-tinues on over ravines, and curves around the base of fre-quent conical mountains, gradually descending until thelow lands and swamps of the valley of the Eio Grande arepassed, when looming up in the distance is seen the high,bald head of Mount Ancon, whose southern foot is washedby the waters of the Pacific Ocean. On the left rises Cerrode los Buccaneros (the Hill of the Buccaneers), fromwhose summit the pirate Morgan, on his marauding marchacross the Isthmus in 1670, had his first view of ancientPanama, and where he encamped on the night previous tohis attack and pillage of that renowned city. Crossing bybridges of iron the
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