PANAMA AND AMERICA.
OANAL WILL ALTER THE MAP. By Telegraph—Press Association— Oopyrlgli® Vancouvor, September 19. M. Phillippe Buena-Varilla, a former engineer ou tho Panama Canal under Ferdinand do Lessops, interviewed, Baid tho canal would remako tho map of North America. 'Ho tendency of civil- 1 isation was ever westward, ana tho population was suro 'to shift towards tho I'acifio Coast. He thought, as the traffic would bo great, that it would bo neo» essary to lower tho canal's level to that of tho Pacific and Atlantic Ocoanß in order to secure freedom from obstructions likely to bo duo to tho uso of ■locks.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1861, 22 September 1913, Page 7
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103PANAMA AND AMERICA. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1861, 22 September 1913, Page 7
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