Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Photo by b H LUioU BAS OBISPO END OF CULEBRA CUT CHAPTER X GATUN DAM AND LOCKS PiaKLIM^iM^NTERING the Panama Canal~ from the Atlantic, one finds the beginning of that sec-tion called by the engineers |M L4a_ —A \i^^K^ the Atlantic Division, four If ^ ^va^B^M ^^^^ °^^ ^t sea in Limon Bay, a shallow arm of theCaribbean on the shore ofwhich are Colon and theAmerican town of Cristo-bal. From its beginning,marked only by the outer-most of a double line of buoys, the canal extendsalmost due south seven miles to the lowest of the. Gatun Locks. Of this di
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Photo by b H LUioU BAS OBISPO END OF CULEBRA CUT CHAPTER X GATUN DAM AND LOCKS PiaKLIM^iM^NTERING the Panama Canal~ from the Atlantic, one finds the beginning of that sec-tion called by the engineers |M L4a_ —A \i^^K^ the Atlantic Division, four If ^ ^va^B^M ^^^^ °^^ ^t sea in Limon Bay, a shallow arm of theCaribbean on the shore ofwhich are Colon and theAmerican town of Cristo-bal. From its beginning,marked only by the outer-most of a double line of buoys, the canal extendsalmost due south seven miles to the lowest of the. Gatun Locks. Of this distance four miles is a channeldredged out of the bottom of Limon Bay and thebottom width of the canal from its beginning to thelocks is 500 feet. Its depth on this division will be 41feet at mean tide. For the protection of vessels en-tering the canal at the Atlantic end, or lying in Colonharbor, a great breakwater 10,500 feet, or a fewfeet less than two miles long, made of huge massesof rock blasted along the line of the Canal, orespecially quarried at Porto Bello, extends fromToro Point to Colon light. In all it will contain2,840,000 cubic yards of rock and its estimatedcost is $5,500,000. In the original plans for the harbor of Cristobal
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