THE PANAMA CANAL.
Great is Ue Lesseps ! The Panama Caual is opening before ten thousaud shovels, like the fabled tunnels of the " Arabian Nights." Next year 15,000 men will be employed. The total length of the canal is forty-six miles from the Atlantic to its mouth in the Pacific, at the islands of Naos and Flamenco. It is divided into twelve sections, which employ daily thirty steam excavators, forty locomotives, and 800 tip waggons. There are 90,000,000 cubic metres to be excavated. The grand cutting, about twothirds of which has already been excavated, is the cutting between Obispo and Paraiso. Last week, Count De Lesseps in a lecture in Paris insisted that the maritime highways should no longer be subjected to the vicissitudes of the active politics of governments. Seas, straits, bosphoruses, and maritime canals should be freely open at all times, irrespective of all international conflict.—Pilot.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2295, 5 January 1884, Page 2
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147THE PANAMA CANAL. Kumara Times, Issue 2295, 5 January 1884, Page 2
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