Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . l^lwlo by VnUiTwooU .i- indiriroud A DIRT-SPREADER AT WORK EVERY BITE RECORDED AT HEADQUARTERS ferocity it burrowed into the hillside, then shakingand trembling with the effort swung back its long armand disgorged its huge mouthful on the waiting fiatcars. The curtain of mist was slowly my lofty eyrie on an outjutting point of Con-tractors Hill it seemed as if the stage was being dis-played, not by the lifting of a curtain, but ratherby the withdrawal of a shield downward so that thehigher scenery became first visible. One by one
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . l^lwlo by VnUiTwooU .i- indiriroud A DIRT-SPREADER AT WORK EVERY BITE RECORDED AT HEADQUARTERS ferocity it burrowed into the hillside, then shakingand trembling with the effort swung back its long armand disgorged its huge mouthful on the waiting fiatcars. The curtain of mist was slowly my lofty eyrie on an outjutting point of Con-tractors Hill it seemed as if the stage was being dis-played, not by the lifting of a curtain, but ratherby the withdrawal of a shield downward so that thehigher scenery became first visible. One by one theterraces cut into the lofty hillsides were exposed toview, each with its line of tugging steam shovelsand its rows of motionless empty cars, or rollingfilled ones rumbling away to the distant and again a sudden eruption of stones and dirtabove the shield of fog followed in a few seconds bya dull boom told of some blast. So dense was themist that one marvelled how in that narrow lanebelow, filled with railroad tracks, and with bus
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