Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . NATURE AND LIFE. 33 unique importance, some slight effort hasbeen made, it seems, in the way of agricul-ture; for yams, plantains, cocoas, lemons,oranges and bananas are cultivated by thedwellers there and sent in to the nearestmarket for sale at exorbitant prices! Be-sides these, there is the luscious guava,which grows wild, and abundantly, in thequiet little Cemetery on the brow of the Hill,where the countless dead, of ages past, sleeptheir last, long sleep midst the songs ofstrange wild birds, and the lullabies of beau-tiful
Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . NATURE AND LIFE. 33 unique importance, some slight effort hasbeen made, it seems, in the way of agricul-ture; for yams, plantains, cocoas, lemons,oranges and bananas are cultivated by thedwellers there and sent in to the nearestmarket for sale at exorbitant prices! Be-sides these, there is the luscious guava,which grows wild, and abundantly, in thequiet little Cemetery on the brow of the Hill,where the countless dead, of ages past, sleeptheir last, long sleep midst the songs ofstrange wild birds, and the lullabies of beau-tiful tropical palm-trees Gatun. Gatun is situated on the famous ChagresEiver, which is one of the difficult problemsin the building of the Canal. This river,which has its mad fits and passions, attimes to the extent of inundating the KailEoad tracks and interrupting the trafficacross the Isthmus occasionally, is some-thing like one hundred miles long, one hun-dred and fifty feet wide, with a depth, insome places, of twenty feet of water. It be- 34 PANAMA PICTURES. g
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