. Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad; together with a traveler's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad and its connections with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan, by sail and steam . formation, at the stillvisible regularity and beauty of its crystallization, and withawe when he reflects upon the gigantic internal forces thathave resulted in its upheaval. It is one of the few knownexamples in the world where the natural perpendicularwhich basaltic formations always assume (so beautifully seenin t
. Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad; together with a traveler's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad and its connections with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan, by sail and steam . formation, at the stillvisible regularity and beauty of its crystallization, and withawe when he reflects upon the gigantic internal forces thathave resulted in its upheaval. It is one of the few knownexamples in the world where the natural perpendicularwhich basaltic formations always assume (so beautifully seenin the Fid gals Cave at Staffa, and along the Palisadesof the Hudson) has been so rent and displaced. But thiswhole region gives unmistakable evidence that great andcomparatively recent volcanic forces have been instrumentalin its formation. There is no continuity of the mountainranges; conical peaks rise up on every side; perfect ma-rine shells and coral are found on their very summits, andthe strata of the rocks exposed by the cuttings of the rail-road are all volcanic. The Eio Grande at this point is anarrow and noisy torrent, winding along through the denseforests far below the track; the caoba, the cedro, and themalvicino trees rise up like lords of the land over the end-. BASALTIC CLIFF.
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