Panama and the canal . mus, too, is shaped like a flatletter S and really runs about east and west—(Map III, ). At Colon, on the Atlantic side, the sun rises over theland and sets over the ocean,—^just the opposite of our ex-pectation. Someone has said very truly that there alwaysseems to be something crooked about the Isthmus. Panama is only nine degrees north of the equator, and so has in all respects a tropical climate. The average temperature for the entire year in the prin- Climate ^ . cipal cities of the United States is about 55°(Falirenheit) above zero. In New Orleans it is 67°; in
Panama and the canal . mus, too, is shaped like a flatletter S and really runs about east and west—(Map III, ). At Colon, on the Atlantic side, the sun rises over theland and sets over the ocean,—^just the opposite of our ex-pectation. Someone has said very truly that there alwaysseems to be something crooked about the Isthmus. Panama is only nine degrees north of the equator, and so has in all respects a tropical climate. The average temperature for the entire year in the prin- Climate ^ . cipal cities of the United States is about 55°(Falirenheit) above zero. In New Orleans it is 67°; inBoston, 50°. In Panama we must be prepared for manydays in which the temperature reaches nearly 100°, and fornights that seldom are below 74°. The average for theyear is considerably above 80°,—or 30° hotter than the United States we are accustomed to four seasonsduring the year, with extremes of heat in summer and ofcold in winter. There are two seasons at Panama, but sum- REPUBLIC OF PANAMA 43. -K^st^oio! Map IV.—The Republic of Panama. 44 TWO SEASONS mer temperature continues the whole year through. Thetwo seasons depend not upon the heat but upon the rain-fall. For eight months, from May to December, great
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