. 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 . ■. PANAMA RAILROAD. 121 quently seen; also occasional native huts, surrounded bycultivated fields. From the station at Obispo the grade isascending, with a maximum of sixty feet to the mile. Con-tinuing to rise for about three miles, you pass the EmpireStation, and reach the Summit, or highest elevationof the railway
. 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 . ■. PANAMA RAILROAD. 121 quently seen; also occasional native huts, surrounded bycultivated fields. From the station at Obispo the grade isascending, with a maximum of sixty feet to the mile. Con-tinuing to rise for about three miles, you pass the EmpireStation, and reach the Summit, or highest elevationof the railway above the mean level of the Atlantic andPacific Oceans. Here is a little native settlement calledCulebra (the Snake), noted as having been the ter-minus of the road in 1854. Then, passengers arriving atthis place by the cars from the Atlantic shore were com-pelled to mount upon mules, and flounder on throughheavy sloughs and rapid streams, along the borders of deepravines and over precipitous mountains, exposed to drench-ing rains in the wet season, and a broiling sun in the dry,not unfrequently attacked and plundered by banditti, withwhich the road was then infested, until, after a whole dayslabor and peril, they arrived at Panama, only twelve milesdistant. Culebra at that
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