Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . ANA3IA PICTURES. bra Mountain down to a point below thelevel of the sea! Culebra, of course, is the busiest Sectionof all. In the Cut, blasting goes onalmost continually; and some heavycharges have been set off lately. Theheaviest of these was the one which con-tained six thousand pounds of dynamiteand twenty-five tons of black powder, whichscattered fifty thousand cubic yards of rockand dirt in one great heap! The day I paid a visit to this Section ofthe Works, everything that wore wheels,appeared to me to have been in motion,
Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . ANA3IA PICTURES. bra Mountain down to a point below thelevel of the sea! Culebra, of course, is the busiest Sectionof all. In the Cut, blasting goes onalmost continually; and some heavycharges have been set off lately. Theheaviest of these was the one which con-tained six thousand pounds of dynamiteand twenty-five tons of black powder, whichscattered fifty thousand cubic yards of rockand dirt in one great heap! The day I paid a visit to this Section ofthe Works, everything that wore wheels,appeared to me to have been in motion, eachone vieing with the other in the race for thegoal of the Worlds great work: There weredump-trains moving, one after the other,in rapid succession, along the banks of theCut; engines puffed away and snortedbusily; and, last, though not the least, afleet of steam-shovels in operation, all ofthem telling, in their own see-saw vernacu-lar, of the glorious thing they were doingfor the benefit of the nations of the World!The graceful motion of their sharp-teethed.
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