THE PANAMA CANAL.
"Next year, if all goes well, the Panama. Canal will bo opened. Tlk> dream of four centuries will he realised, the greatest engineering task of our time accomplished, and the Pacific ;md Atlantic made one," says the Atlantic Monthly. "You can see now the great I'hin.s monng through—flagsflying and bands playing—where yesterday the lonely traveller hurried across the treacherous jungle with a shiver, and looked behind hun for the enemy lurking in every shadow. You can almost hear the rumble and hum of that mighty spirit—our tremendous and baffling modern spirit—which, with all its superficial hardness and irreverence, works miracles for practical humanity that the old days never knew or dreamed of." .
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 April 1913, Page 4
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115THE PANAMA CANAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 April 1913, Page 4
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