Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE NEW CRISTOBAL DOCKS THE APPROACH TO COLON 25. palms which blend with the sea I go on to Colon and by thunder dere is no but mud. It is recorded that the skip-pers explanation was accepted and that he wasacquitted of wilfully casting away his vessel. We reach Colon where lie the docks of the RoyalMail in the early morning. To the right as we steaminto Limon Bay is the long breakwater of ToroPoint extending three miles into the Caribbean,the very first Atlantic outpost of the canal. Forit was necessary to create here a largely arti
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE NEW CRISTOBAL DOCKS THE APPROACH TO COLON 25. palms which blend with the sea I go on to Colon and by thunder dere is no but mud. It is recorded that the skip-pers explanation was accepted and that he wasacquitted of wilfully casting away his vessel. We reach Colon where lie the docks of the RoyalMail in the early morning. To the right as we steaminto Limon Bay is the long breakwater of ToroPoint extending three miles into the Caribbean,the very first Atlantic outpost of the canal. Forit was necessary to create here a largely artificialharbor, as Limon Bay affords no safe anchoragewhen the fierce northers sweep down along thecoast. In the early days of Colon, when it was thestarting point of the gold seekers trail to Panama,ships in its harbor were compelled to cut and runfor the safer, though now abandoned, harbor ofPorto Bello some twenty miles down the coast. That condition the great breakwater the ship one sees a line of low hills formingthe horizon with no break or indentation to suggestthat here m
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