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The Panama Canal - Duncan E. McKinlay
Duncan E. McKinlay
The Panama Canal
EAN 8596547044215
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
The History of the Canal
Nine Different Routes Proposed
The Isthmian Routes
The Panama Railroad
The French Company
De Lesseps’ Plan
Wastefulness of the French Company
Significance of the Oregon’s
Course
The Canal Commission
Acquirement of the Canal Zone
The New Republic of Panama
Terms of the Treaty
Sanitization of the Canal Zone
War on the Mosquito
The Present Low Death Rate
The Two Types of Canal
The Lock System Adopted
Army Engineers Installed
Old French Machinery
The Gatun Dam
The Work of Excavation
Operation of the Locks
The Future of the Canal
The History of the Canal
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The idea of constructing an artificial water-way between the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Panama is as old as the discovery of America. Christopher Columbus, in early life, became converted to the idea that the world was round, and his studies led him to believe that by sailing in a direct course and sailing far enough, he could circumnavigate the globe and come back to the point from which he started, provided he could keep on that straight course. This belief naturally led him to the conclusion that by sailing westward from Spain, across the Atlantic, he could reach the coasts and the islands of Asia, which about that time were coming into great prominence as a desired market for the exchange of the wares of the producers and the manufacturers of Europe.
RUINS OF SANTA DOMINIE CHURCH, PANAMA.
The only mistake made by Columbus was that he estimated the circumference of the world at about 8,000 miles, instead of over 24,000. Following his theory, Columbus embarked on his first and greatest voyage, and was successful, as we know, in discovering one of the islands of the West Indies. Columbus made four voyages in all to the newly discovered land, but it is doubtful as to whether or not he ever reached the mainland of America. One of his historians claims that on his last voyage he landed upon the coast of Honduras in Central America, and on the land now known as Venezuela, farther toward the south. This fact is of little importance to us at this time. We do know, however, that Columbus died in ignorance of the fact that he had discovered a great continent instead of some of the islands of the East Indies.
Immediately following the death of Columbus, his enterprising lieutenants, men like Vespucci, Ojeda, Balboa, and others of equal prominence, pushed their explorations farther westward, and Balboa, the boldest of the Spanish conquistadores, fitted out an expedition in Hispaniola, which island was then the base of operations of Spanish exploration and conquest, and sailed across the narrow sea to the coast of that portion of Central America we now call Panama.
Balboa established a rendezvous and base of supplies and operations on the coast, and thence continued his journey inland, and on the 23rd of September, 1513, surmounted the heights of Darien, and from that eminence beheld the expansive stretches of watery waste known today as the Pacific Ocean. Balboa, continuing his explorations along