. 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 . re often two or three feet in length, con-trasting vividly with the surrounding verdure. The palm-tree, that prince of the vegetable kingdom, which is socharacteristic of tropical vegetation, is nowhere more abun-dant in variety and beauty than upon the Isthmus, no lessthan twenty-one varieties having already been fo
. 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 . re often two or three feet in length, con-trasting vividly with the surrounding verdure. The palm-tree, that prince of the vegetable kingdom, which is socharacteristic of tropical vegetation, is nowhere more abun-dant in variety and beauty than upon the Isthmus, no lessthan twenty-one varieties having already been found andclassified here. Conspicuous among them for their practi-cal use to the natives of the country are the wine palm,from the sap of which is distilled a sweet and intoxicatingbeverage; the motombo, or sago palm, which furnishesthe sago; the ivory palm, producing the vegetable ivory-nut of commerce; the glove palm, which furnishes, bythe covering of its spatha, ready-made bags, capable ofholding grain, etc., to the amount of nearly half a bushel;the cabbage palm, the tender shoots upon the summitof which resemble in appearance and nutritiousness the or-dinary cabbage; others also there are from which they man-ufacture flax, sugar, various domestic utensils, weapons, and. PANAMA RAILROAD. 95 food; besides this, the habitations of the people are framedof their trunks and roofed with their leaves. Passing the seventh mile-post, you emerge from theswamp, and come to the Gatun Station, located upon theeastern bank of the Kio Chagrcs, which is at this pointabout fifty yards in width, and here makes a great bend,opening beautiful vistas through the dense forests up anddown its course. This bank of the river is formed by aridge of low hills, across the foot of which the railway few yards from the road, on the high ground to the left,are the buildings of the station. A large, two-story framedbuilding, about forty feet in length by thirty in breadth,surrounded by piazzas and ba
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