Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Photo hu VndtTWOod S: LndLruood A STEAM SHOVEL IN OPERATION 220 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. BIRD S EYE VIEW OE THE MIRAFLORES LOCKS mans mutilations. In time, of course, all this color-ing will disappear and the ships will steam alongbetwixt two towering walls of living green. Ones attention, however, wHen in the Cut is heldmainly by its industrial rather than by its scenicfeatures. For the latter the view from above, al-ready described, is incalculably the better. Butdown here in the depths your mind is gripped bythe signs of human activity on every si
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Photo hu VndtTWOod S: LndLruood A STEAM SHOVEL IN OPERATION 220 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. BIRD S EYE VIEW OE THE MIRAFLORES LOCKS mans mutilations. In time, of course, all this color-ing will disappear and the ships will steam alongbetwixt two towering walls of living green. Ones attention, however, wHen in the Cut is heldmainly by its industrial rather than by its scenicfeatures. For the latter the view from above, al-ready described, is incalculably the better. Butdown here in the depths your mind is gripped bythe signs of human activity on every side. Every-thing that a machine can do is being done by ma-chinery, yet there are 6000 men working in thisnarrow way, men white and black and of everyintermediate and indeterminate shade. Men whotalk in Spanish, French, the gibberish of the Jamai-can, in Hindoo, in Chinese. One thinks it a pitythat Col. Goethals and his chief lieutenants couldnot have been at the Tower of Babel, for in that eventthat aspiring en-terprise wouldnever have beenhalted by so com-monplace an ob-stacle as the con-fusion of tongues. To us as weplod alo
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