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Willis John Abbott. Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose
Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose
Table of Contents
LIST OF COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE FRONT DOOR TO PANAMA
CHAPTER II. CRISTOBAL-COLON; AND THE PANAMA RAILROAD
CHAPTER III. NOMBRE DE DIOS, PORTO BELLO AND SAN LORENZO
CHAPTER IV. SAN LORENZO AND PANAMA
CHAPTER V. THE SACK OF OLD PANAMA
CHAPTER VI. REVOLUTIONS AND THE FRENCH REGIME
CHAPTER VII. THE UNITED STATES BEGINS WORK
CHAPTER VIII. THE FORMATIVE PERIOD
CHAPTER IX. COL. GOETHALS AT THE THROTTLE
CHAPTER X. GATUN DAM AND LOCKS
CHAPTER XI. GATUN LAKE AND THE CHAGRES RIVER
CHAPTER XII. THE CULEBRA CUT
CHAPTER XIII. THE CITY OF PANAMA
CHAPTER XIV. THE SANITATION OF THE ZONE
CHAPTER XV. THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA
CHAPTER XVI. THE INDIANS OF PANAMA
CHAPTER XVII. SOCIAL LIFE ON THE CANAL ZONE
CHAPTER XVIII. LABOR AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ZONE
CHAPTER XIX. FORTIFICATIONS; TOLLS; COMMERCE AND QUARANTINE
CHAPTER XX. DIPLOMACY AND POLITICS OF THE CANAL
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Willis John Abbott
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Not impressive as viewed from the water, the town is even less so when considered in the intimacy of its streets. An air of gray melancholy pervades it all. In 1907 an earthquake rent the town into fragments, and the work of rebuilding is but begun. Ruins confront you on every hand, the ruins of edifices that in their prime could have been nothing but commonplace, and in this day of their disaster have none of the dignity which we like to discover in mute memorials of a vanished past. Over all broods a dull, drab mantle of dust. The glorious trees, unexcelled in variety and vigor, have their richly varying hues dulled by the dust, so that you may not know how superb indeed is the coloring of leaf and flower except after one of the short sharp tropical rains that washes away the pall and sets the gutters roaring with a chocolate colored flood.
JAMAICA, WHERE MOTORING IS GOOD
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