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Page 117
... Lake is separated from the Pacific by a narrow isthmus of 17 miles in width , whose divide is very low ( 44 feet above the lake ) , while the Panama Isthmus is 45 miles wide , and its continental divide 330 feet above the sea . This ...
... Lake is separated from the Pacific by a narrow isthmus of 17 miles in width , whose divide is very low ( 44 feet above the lake ) , while the Panama Isthmus is 45 miles wide , and its continental divide 330 feet above the sea . This ...
Page 118
... lake , making a total of 186.53 miles from ocean to crean . Of that total length of 120.53 miles of canal navi- gation . 22.19 miles will belong to an artificial channel dug below the bottom of Nicaragua Lake , and 27.96 miles to an ...
... lake , making a total of 186.53 miles from ocean to crean . Of that total length of 120.53 miles of canal navi- gation . 22.19 miles will belong to an artificial channel dug below the bottom of Nicaragua Lake , and 27.96 miles to an ...
Page 122
... lake was formerly a gulf of the Pacific Ocean , and whose name was associated with the most terrible volcanic explosion ever recorded in history before the Krakatoa explosion in the Sunda Islands . The explosion of the volcano Coseguina ...
... lake was formerly a gulf of the Pacific Ocean , and whose name was associated with the most terrible volcanic explosion ever recorded in history before the Krakatoa explosion in the Sunda Islands . The explosion of the volcano Coseguina ...
Contents
RUDOLPH J TAUSSIG | 1 |
Selected Abstracts Reprinted from Report of the AtlanticPacific Interoceanic Canal | 15 |
FESSENDEN N OTIS | 25 |
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