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“...passengers and mails are conveyed by a small river steamboat
ivery sixth day to Barranquilla. Fare $3.80 (15s. 10d.).
Port Limon. A railway runs from Port Limon to San José
md the Pacific coast. The stations on the line are as follows :
Stations Miles Height Feet Stations Miles Height Feet
Limon — II Peralta . 54-2 1055
M,oin Junction . 3-5 Turrialba 62.5 2037
Z£nt Junction . Vlatina 20.4 21.9 55 Tucurrique Juan Vifias 68.7 738 3286
Madre di Dios . 28.7 Santiago 78.1 ^536
Indiana Junction 35-7 Paraiso . 85-4 4392
Siquirres . 36.7 196 Cartago 89.4 4760
La Junta . 38.6 187 El Alto . 92.2 5137
Florida 43° Tres Rios 96.0 4362
Las Lamas 45-2 87 San José ' 102.1 3868
SIGHTS. Some two hours after leaving Colon,
steamers coasting along the Spanish Main pass Porto
Bello, a former Spanish stronghold.
[ Porto Bello was peopled with the inhabitants of
Sombre de Dios in 1584, when that city was virtually
ibandoned after having been repeatedly raided by the
Indians. As the chief Atlantic entrepót of the...”
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“...426 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
hillside by hydraulic washing proceeds by night as well
as day.
Leaving the Canal at Bas Obispo, the railway cuts ;
through a ridge of solid rock behind Gold Hill, and even- j
tually runs down the Pedro Miguel Valley to Paraiso.
Here is the Pedro Miguel (popularly known as “ Peter '
McGill ”) Lock, similar in construction to those at Gatun, I
which lowers vessels 30J feet to the Miraflores Lake, i
This lake is formed by dams connecting the walls of the J
Miraflores Locks with the high ground on either side, j
The dam to the west is of earth, and is about 2,700 feet
long, with a crest 15 feet above the level of the lake, while j
that to the east is formed of concrete (about 75,000 cubic
yards) and is about 500 feet long. The Miraflores locks,
two in number (and both duplicated), lower vessels
54§ feet to the level of the Pacific. At night the locks j
are brilliantly illuminated, and pilots are informed I
which of them the vessels under their charge are...”
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“...THE PANAMA CANAL 427
filled the pit rapidly, and at 3 o’clock, one hour, and twenty-five
minutes after the water first began to flow over, the level in the
inside channel was that of the outside channel, while the gap
had been widened to 400 feet or more.
From Paraiso the railway runs practically parallel
with the canal to the terminals at Panama and Balboa.
The following table of distances in nautical miles
from the nearest Canal terminal to ports of consequence
may be useful for purpose of reference :
MILES
Boston, Mass. . 2,157
New York . . 1,974
Havana, Cuba . 1,003
New Orleans . . 1,403
Kingston, Jamaica . 551
St. Thomas . . 1,029
MILES
Liverpool . . 4,548
Yokohama, Japan . 7,682
Hong Kong . . 9,i95
Wellington, New Zea-
land . . . 6,505
Sydney, Australia . 7,674
, Between New York and San Francisco the distance
of 13.135 nautical miles by way of the Strait of Magollan
has been reduced to 5,262 miles by the Canal, a re-
duction of three-fiths. From New York to Valparaiso
the reduction...”
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“...427
Accommodation, 419
Bay, 416
Books on, 17
Communications, 420
Direction of, 417
Locks, 416-7, 426
Opening of, 419
Zone, 416, 419
City, 420, 427-30
Disease of bananas, 389,
394. 410
Isthmus of, 3, 418
Mail Steamship Co., 459
Old, 400, 418, 430—2
Railway, 418, 420, 423
Republic of, 396, 397, 416,
419
Pan-American Airways, 372,
391, 464
“ Pan-American Peace Tree,"
347
Papain for digestion, 232
" Papiamento " patois, 11, 333
Papine, 273
Paradise, Birds of, 146, 149
Paradise, British Guiana, 374
Paraiso, 426, 427
Paramaribo, 413-4
Parasol Rock, 117
Parham Harbour, 198, 209
Paria, Gulf of, 112, 117
Parika, 372, 373, 382
Parke, Governor, fate of, 199,
202
Parque, Fraternidad, Cuba, 347
Parry, Bishop, 172
" Partido ” tobacco, 354
Paso Real, 354
Passports, 27
Pater, Dutch freebooter, 405
Pearl, H.M. frigate, 319
Pearls (pink) from conchs, 293
Pedro Cays, 252, 297-8
Pedro Miguel, 417, 420, 426
Pegasus, frigate, 208
Pelée, la Montague, (or Pelé,
Mont), 5, 192, 244, 306
eruption of (1902), 310-2
Pelican...”
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