THE PANAMA CANAL.
Great is De Lesseps ! The Panama ■Canal is opening before ten thousand -shovels, like the fabled tunnels of >he ■"Arabian Nights." Nent year 15,000 men will be employed. The total length of the canal is forty-six miles rfrom 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 »>een 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, hosphoruaes, and .maritime canals should be freely open at all times, irrespective of all international conflict. — Pilot.
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Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1348, 14 January 1884, Page 3
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148THE PANAMA CANAL. Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1348, 14 January 1884, Page 3
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