Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . common-place, spanned atone point by theGamboa bridge upat which the voy-ager looks reflec-tively from belowas he hears that when the spillway is closed arid the lake filled upthere will be but 15 feet headway above the riverscrest, where at the moment there is more than up are the towers, housing the machinery forrecording the rivers rise, one of them a relic of theFrench regime, while a slender wire spanning thestream carries the pendulous car in which observerswill go out at flood time to measure the height ofthe tides crest and the s
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . common-place, spanned atone point by theGamboa bridge upat which the voy-ager looks reflec-tively from belowas he hears that when the spillway is closed arid the lake filled upthere will be but 15 feet headway above the riverscrest, where at the moment there is more than up are the towers, housing the machinery forrecording the rivers rise, one of them a relic of theFrench regime, while a slender wire spanning thestream carries the pendulous car in which observerswill go out at flood time to measure the height ofthe tides crest and the speed of the current. Astream of many moods is the Chagres, sometimesrising 40 feet in 24 hours. Accordingly along itsanks and those of its principal tributaries areviographic stations whence watchers may tele- , ofione to the keepers of the flood gates of the daminings of the coming of any sudden freshet,the matter of conserving the waters of thees, estimating the total capacity of the water- gsMdi and in providing for swift forwarding of in-. A QUIET BEACH ON THE CHAGRES
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