Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . OVERWHELMED BY THE JUNGLE gress there were less than lOO of the 164 delegatespresent when the vote was taken. Seventy-eightvoted for sea-level and a majority of the engineersvoted against it. In my description of the canal work the funda- 112 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. A LOTTERY TICKET SELLER mental dif-ferences be-tween therespectiveadvantagesof the sea-level and thelock type ofcanal willcontinuallyreappear. Atthis momentit is enoughto say thatthe obstaclesto the sea-level planare to befound inCulebra Hilland theC h a gr e sRiver. Inthe lock typeof ca
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . OVERWHELMED BY THE JUNGLE gress there were less than lOO of the 164 delegatespresent when the vote was taken. Seventy-eightvoted for sea-level and a majority of the engineersvoted against it. In my description of the canal work the funda- 112 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. A LOTTERY TICKET SELLER mental dif-ferences be-tween therespectiveadvantagesof the sea-level and thelock type ofcanal willcontinuallyreappear. Atthis momentit is enoughto say thatthe obstaclesto the sea-level planare to befound inCulebra Hilland theC h a gr e sRiver. Inthe lock typeof canal the cut at Culebra is 495 feet below thecrest of Gold Hill and 364 feet below the crest ofContractors Hill opposite. The top width of thiscut is over half a mile. To carry the canal tosea-level would mean a further cut of eighty-fivefeet with vastly en-hanced -\ liability ofslides. As for theChagres River, thattricky stream crossesthe line of the oldFrench canal twenty-three times. As theriver is sometimes threeor four feet deep oneday and nearly fiftyfeet deep at the samepoint the next—a tur-bid, turbulent, roaringtorrent, carrying trees,huts and bouldersalong with it — thecanal could obviouslynot exist with the Chagres in its path. The French device was to damthe stream some miles above the p
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