. 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 . re, risingin their stateliness, the classic sheaves of the royal palmshed an air of Eastern beauty over the landscape. A na-tive village dots the foreground; on the left the waters ofthe Chagres, broadened at this point by the Eio Obispo (itsgreatest tributary), is seen through the ceiba groves thatskirt its banks, w
. 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 . re, risingin their stateliness, the classic sheaves of the royal palmshed an air of Eastern beauty over the landscape. A na-tive village dots the foreground; on the left the waters ofthe Chagres, broadened at this point by the Eio Obispo (itsgreatest tributary), is seen through the ceiba groves thatskirt its banks, while on the right and in front the scene isbounded by a group of conical hills covered with shortgrass and studded with palms. The completion of thePanama Eailroad in 1855 was here celebrated with greatceremony and rejoicing, and the corner-stone of a monu-ment to its originators and constructors was erected uponthe crest of the highest and most beautiful of these hills. 116 HAND-BOOK OF THE The railway has several side branches at Matachin, and isthe usual point of meeting for the trains from either ter-minus. As there is usually a little delay on such occasions,the natives take advantage of it to traffic with the pas-sengers. Almost every hut displays something for sale:. NATIVE HUT AT MATACHLN. cakes, dulces, or native candy, and the various fruits ofthe region. Here the oranges are unusually fine. There isalso a saloon, kept by a native, where very good Englishbeer, French claret, crackers and cheese, etc., may be ob-tained. From Matachin, passing along the base of uMonu-ment Hill the narrow valley of the Kio Obispo is entered,and its waters are crossed by stout iron bridges twice with-in the distance of a mile; then you pass the Obispo Station,and continue along the course of the Obispo River, over afine rolling and luxuriant woodland, where the deliciouswild mango, the zapote, the nispero, and the guava are fre- satafessyjia-^f.
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