Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . a tax upon the most vivid imagina-tion. To what great work of the past can we com-pare this one of the present? The great Chinese wall has been celebrated in allhistory as one of mans most gigantic efforts. It is1500 miles long and would reach from San Franciscoto St. Louis. But the rock and dirt taken from thePanama Canal would build a wall as high and thickas the Chinese wonder, 2500 miles long and reachfrom San Francisco to New York in a bee-line. We cross thousands of miles of ocean to see thegreat Pyramid of Cheops, one of the Seven Wondersof
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . a tax upon the most vivid imagina-tion. To what great work of the past can we com-pare this one of the present? The great Chinese wall has been celebrated in allhistory as one of mans most gigantic efforts. It is1500 miles long and would reach from San Franciscoto St. Louis. But the rock and dirt taken from thePanama Canal would build a wall as high and thickas the Chinese wonder, 2500 miles long and reachfrom San Francisco to New York in a bee-line. We cross thousands of miles of ocean to see thegreat Pyramid of Cheops, one of the Seven Wondersof the ancient world. But the spoil taken fromthe canal prism would build sixty-three such pyra-mids which put in a row would fill Broadway fromthe Battery to Harlem, or a distance of nine miles. The Panama Canal is but fifty miles long, but ifwe could imagine the United States as perfectlylevel, the amount of excavation done at Panamawould dig a canal ten feet deep and fifty-five feetwide across the United States at its broadest part. ^^^^.p^. CouTUsy Scientific American A GRAPHIC COMPARISONThe spoil taken from the canal would build 63 pyramids the size of Cheops in Broadway from the Battery to Harlem ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MAGNITUDE OF THE CANAL WORK 135 New York City boasts of its great Pennsylvaniaterminal, and its sky-piercing Woolworth Building;Washington is proud yf^^^ °^ its toweringWashington Mon- // ^^**^-~^ unient,theWhite Houseand the
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