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Identifier: panamacanalinpic01abbo (find matches)
Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d the advantage of striking first would beopen to either. Not impressive as viewed from the water, the town is even less so when considered in the intimacyof its streets. An air of gray melancholy pervades itall. In 1907 an earthquake rent the town into frag-ments, and the work of rebuilding is but begun.Ruins confront you on every hand, the ruins of edi-fices that in their prime could have been nothingbut commonplace, and in this day of their disasterhave none of the dignity which we like to discoverin mute memorials of a vanished past. Over allbroods a dull, drab mantle of dust. The glorioustrees, unexcelled in variety and vigor, have theirrichly varying hues dulled by the dust, so that youmay not know how superb indeed is the coloringof leaf and flower except after one of the short sharptropical rains that washes away the pall and setsthe gutters roaring with a chocolate colored flood.Making due allowance for the tropical vegetationand the multitudinous negro, there is much that is
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JAMAICA, WHERE MOTORING IS GOOD

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