. Panama pictures : nature and life in the land of the great canal. untain down to a point below thelevel of the sea! Culebra, of course, is the busiest Sectionof all. In the ^^Cut/ blasting goes onalmost continually; and some heavy^^charges have been set off lately. Theheaviest of these w^as the one which con-tained six thousand pounds of dynamiteand twenty-five tons of black powder, whichscattered fifty thousand cubic yards of rockand dirt in one great heap! The day I paid a visit to this Section ofthe Works, everything that wore wheelsappeared to me to have been in motion, eachone vieing wi
. Panama pictures : nature and life in the land of the great canal. untain down to a point below thelevel of the sea! Culebra, of course, is the busiest Sectionof all. In the ^^Cut/ blasting goes onalmost continually; and some heavy^^charges have been set off lately. Theheaviest of these w^as the one which con-tained six thousand pounds of dynamiteand twenty-five tons of black powder, whichscattered fifty thousand cubic yards of rockand dirt in one great heap! The day I paid a visit to this Section ofthe Works, everything that wore wheelsappeared to me to have been in motion, eachone vieing with the other in the race for thegoal of the Worlds great work: There were^^dump-trains moving, one after the other,in rapid succession, along the banks of the^^Cut; engines puffed away and snortedbusily; and, last, though not the least, afleet of steam-shovels in operation, all ofthem telling, in their OAvn see-saw vernacu-lar, of the glorious thing they were doingfor the benefit of the nations of the World!The graceful motion of their sharp-teethed ^9ifo QS o PO.
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