THE PANAMA CANAL.
The Panama Canal appears to be in ' a bad way, and the chanc©B of its ac - complishment grow more and more remote. M. de Lesseps is faced by difficulties far more serious than those he overcame at Suez. Ho has to deal with Virgin rook, not sand ;"he has'iuT"'"' labor but ' what he imports from -great v 'distances, whilst in Egypt he;had the/- - command of-the labor market of thel three continents. 'The climate is this W year more pestilential than ever, and • already numbers of valuable lives have succumbed, ; In four days the, Canal j■, Companylost; nine : : oflScersj S and'''' 'also • two l 'of 1 their' 'ablest : erijgmeeVs' Nature, morever, seems hostile, and the' earthquake which has just, destroyed the Panama railway] .augurs . that,tremendous. forces may.,,;. y the greatdamwhichisone of thecliief features of, the; work. This• dam is intended to hold- in check the river Changres, a turbulent torrent which after 'the rains would continually ' threaten the very existence of the canal if ever constructed, But at the present moment. itseems probable that the Panama Canal will be numbered amongst the vain uncomplete, undertakings of the world. In any case nothing much has been done as yet. beyond clearing woods and opening ' roads. Ground has not been broken, and the real difficulties of the schemeare still but imperfectly understood.— Home News,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1258, 19 December 1882, Page 2
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224THE PANAMA CANAL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1258, 19 December 1882, Page 2
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