Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . worlds trade isconducted. If the limit of 41 lockages seems low,it must be remembered that time is quite as mucha factor in the case as is the water supply. It willtake an hour and a half to put a ship through theI locks. That time therefore technically constitutesa passage. In the 24 hours there would be 36passages possible, and under the circumstances thatwould draw most heavily on the lake there will bewater enough for 41. For the creation of this lake our engineers foundthe Chagres River available. It had dug the valleyin which would be stored
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . worlds trade isconducted. If the limit of 41 lockages seems low,it must be remembered that time is quite as mucha factor in the case as is the water supply. It willtake an hour and a half to put a ship through theI locks. That time therefore technically constitutesa passage. In the 24 hours there would be 36passages possible, and under the circumstances thatwould draw most heavily on the lake there will bewater enough for 41. For the creation of this lake our engineers foundthe Chagres River available. It had dug the valleyin which would be stored the vast volume of water? needed, and the unfailing flow from its broad water-\ shed could be relied upon at all seasons—thoughindeed in the rainy season its contribution is some-times embarrassingly lavish. Every land comes to be judged largely by itsrivers. Speak of Egypt and you think of the Nile;India suggests the Ganges; England the Thames;and France the Seine. The Chagres is as truly Panamas most famous bard and most cruel AUTOMATIC FLUVIOGRAPH ON GATUN LAKE THE NATIVE AFFECTION FOR THE CHAGRES 189
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