Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . CATHEDRAL PLAZA, PANAMAThe building in the center was by turns the French and the American Administration Building EARLY PROJECTORS OF A PANAMA CANAL 109. AVENIDA CENTRALEThe building with the rounded corner balcony is the American Consulate commanding general to pay the fares for his troopsover forty-eight miles of railroad. Of that, how-ever, more hereafter. Of course, during all the revolutions and counterrevolutions the idea of the canal had steadily at one time took a mild interest in it andsent one Horatio Nelson to look over t
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . CATHEDRAL PLAZA, PANAMAThe building in the center was by turns the French and the American Administration Building EARLY PROJECTORS OF A PANAMA CANAL 109. AVENIDA CENTRALEThe building with the rounded corner balcony is the American Consulate commanding general to pay the fares for his troopsover forty-eight miles of railroad. Of that, how-ever, more hereafter. Of course, during all the revolutions and counterrevolutions the idea of the canal had steadily at one time took a mild interest in it andsent one Horatio Nelson to look over the young naval officers health failed him and hereturned to become in later years the hero of Trafal-gar and the Nile. Later, the great German von Humboldt, in the course of a famousvoyage to South America, spent some time on theIsthmus, and wrote much of its natural features,enumerating nine routes for a canal including ofcourse the one finally adopted. Louis Napoleon,though never on the Isthmus, dreamed out the possi-bilities of a canal when he was a prisoner in the fortress of Ham. Had he succeeded in maintaining Max-imilian on the throne of Mexico he might have made
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