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Miocene columnar basalts that contributed to the formation of the Isthmus of Panama are removed for the expansion of the Panama canal. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 17 ...
THE canal proposed by M. de Lesseps, and intended to pierce the Isthmus of Panama is in many respects a bolder enterprise even than the Suez Canal. The engineering difficulties are far greater ...
the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique began work on a canal that would cross the Colombian isthmus of Panama and unite the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Ferdinand de Lesseps ...