The Panama Canal: Readings on Its HistorySCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection. |
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... Pacific to flow right through it across to the Atlantic ; so that ships bound from the Pacific to the Atlantic would pass with the flood and those from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the ebb tide of the latter . " The cost of building ...
... Pacific to flow right through it across to the Atlantic ; so that ships bound from the Pacific to the Atlantic would pass with the flood and those from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the ebb tide of the latter . " The cost of building ...
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... Pacific Ocean at Playa Prieta , the northern suburb of the city of Panama . Four tracks were laid at the Atlantic and three at the Pacific terminus , and the line of the road was well supplied with sidings and machinery for reversing ...
... Pacific Ocean at Playa Prieta , the northern suburb of the city of Panama . Four tracks were laid at the Atlantic and three at the Pacific terminus , and the line of the road was well supplied with sidings and machinery for reversing ...
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... Pacific . . " 31 Such support was to continue for years . • • In the decade following 1889 , the year the Maritime Company actually undertook the construction of a Nicaragua canal , various legislative bodies , trade associations ...
... Pacific . . " 31 Such support was to continue for years . • • In the decade following 1889 , the year the Maritime Company actually undertook the construction of a Nicaragua canal , various legislative bodies , trade associations ...
Contents
RUDOLPH J TAUSSIG | 1 |
No Fortifications for the Panama Canal Reprinted from American Review of Reviews | 13 |
FESSENDEN N OTIS | 25 |
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