Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . NATURE AND LIFE. 19 PAKT II. When Ruskin said that travelling by railwas like being sent from place to place likeso many packages, it is evident that, beforemaking the comparison, he had not dippedinto the future, far as human eyes couldsee; nor, to paraphrase Tennyson, did hesee then, the vision of Panama, or theglories that, sooner or later, were destinedto be hers, by reason of her unique geograph-ical position among the Nations of theWorld, and that would, eventually, make arailroad ride over a beautiful tropicalstretch of f
Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . NATURE AND LIFE. 19 PAKT II. When Ruskin said that travelling by railwas like being sent from place to place likeso many packages, it is evident that, beforemaking the comparison, he had not dippedinto the future, far as human eyes couldsee; nor, to paraphrase Tennyson, did hesee then, the vision of Panama, or theglories that, sooner or later, were destinedto be hers, by reason of her unique geograph-ical position among the Nations of theWorld, and that would, eventually, make arailroad ride over a beautiful tropicalstretch of forty-seven miles of country, athing never to be forgotten! Be this as it may, however, a trip acrossthe Isthmus of Panama has always been amost delightful and interesting experiencefor me; but on the present occasion, withwhich this article deals, I must say that Iwas more deeply impressed than ever before,on account of the marked improvements 20 PANAMA PICTURES. which I had noticed all along the line of therailroad, and which, summed up to a grandtotal, amount
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