Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . nds with the bed of the lake. This faceis covered with broken stone down to the toe—as they call the walls of rough rock between whichthe dirt dam was built. The method of building the dam was simpleenough even though it sounds complicated in thetelling. When Congress acquiesced in the minorityreport of the Board of International Engineers, ap-proved by the President and recommending a locktype canal, it meant that instead of simply digginga ditch across the Isthmus we would create a greatartificial lake 85 feet above sea level, confined bydams at
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . nds with the bed of the lake. This faceis covered with broken stone down to the toe—as they call the walls of rough rock between whichthe dirt dam was built. The method of building the dam was simpleenough even though it sounds complicated in thetelling. When Congress acquiesced in the minorityreport of the Board of International Engineers, ap-proved by the President and recommending a locktype canal, it meant that instead of simply digginga ditch across the Isthmus we would create a greatartificial lake 85 feet above sea level, confined bydams at either ends, with locks and two short canalsto give communication with the oceans. To createthis lake it was determined to impound the watersof the Chagres, and a site near the village of Gatun,through which the old French canal passed, wasselected for this purpose. Conditions of topographyof course determined this site. The Chagres valleyhere is 7,920 feet wide, but the determining fact wasthat about the center of the valley was a hill of.
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