Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE CHAGRES, SHOWING OBSERVER S ( \KFrom the swinging car the observer measures the crest of the flood and rapidity of the current i87 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. FLUVIOGRAPH AT BOHIO, NOW SUBMERGED Panamanian as the Rhine isGerman and there have beenwatches on the Chagres, too,when buccaneers and revolu-tionists urged their cayucasalong its tortuous was the highway by whichthe despoilers of Peru carriedtheir loot to the Atlantic onthe way to Spain, and along itstide drifted the later argonautswho sought the golden fleecein California in the
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE CHAGRES, SHOWING OBSERVER S ( \KFrom the swinging car the observer measures the crest of the flood and rapidity of the current i87 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. FLUVIOGRAPH AT BOHIO, NOW SUBMERGED Panamanian as the Rhine isGerman and there have beenwatches on the Chagres, too,when buccaneers and revolu-tionists urged their cayucasalong its tortuous was the highway by whichthe despoilers of Peru carriedtheir loot to the Atlantic onthe way to Spain, and along itstide drifted the later argonautswho sought the golden fleecein California in the days poet too has sung it, butnot in words of praise. Listento its most famous lyric fromthe pen of James Henry Gilbert. locks. The only locks with which these could becompared are those at the Soo, or outlet of LakeSuperior. That canal, the busiest one in the worldfor eight months in the year, averaged 39 lockagesa day during that period on the American side anda smaller number through the Canadian locks. Thewater in Gatun Lake will be sufficient for 41 passages,if the full length of the locks is used or 58 if onlythe partial length is used, which will be the casewith steamships of less
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