Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . f Agriculture, Prof. Otto Lutz, Department ofNatural Science, Panama National Institute; Ryall Burtis, of Freehold, N. J.; Mr. StewartiHancock Elliott, of Norwalk, Conn.; Mr. A. WJFrench, and Dr. A. J. Orenstein of the Department!of Sanitation. • The opening of the Panama Canal does not merelyportend a new era in trade, or the end of the epochof trial and struggle on the Isthmus. It has a!finality such as have few of the great works of on this globe are there left two continentsto be severed; two oceans to be united. Canals areye
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . f Agriculture, Prof. Otto Lutz, Department ofNatural Science, Panama National Institute; Ryall Burtis, of Freehold, N. J.; Mr. StewartiHancock Elliott, of Norwalk, Conn.; Mr. A. WJFrench, and Dr. A. J. Orenstein of the Department!of Sanitation. • The opening of the Panama Canal does not merelyportend a new era in trade, or the end of the epochof trial and struggle on the Isthmus. It has a!finality such as have few of the great works of on this globe are there left two continentsto be severed; two oceans to be united. Canals areyet to be dug, arms of the sea brought may yet see inland channels from Boston toiGalveston, and from Chicago to New York nav-igable by large steamships. But the union of theMediterranean and the Red Sea at Suez, and theAtlantic and Pacific at Panama stand as manscrowning achievements in remodeling Gods Ambassador James Bryce, speaking of the Pana-ma Canal, put it, It is the greatest liberty Manhas ever taken with RUINS OF OLD PANAMA
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