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Title: Panama pictures : nature and life in the land of the great canal
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Delevante, Michael
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Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Alden Brothers
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NATURE AND LIFE, 41 had come over it. A new Freight and Pas-senger Depot had been built to meet the in-creased demands of the traffic there; and agroup of pretty little cottages, erected bythe Canal Commission for the accommoda-tion of its employes, formed a picturesquebackground to this rejuvenated Station. To-day, the only building which serves asa landmark of the Frijoles of the past, is anold two-story, whitewashed house, whichstands up proudly near the Rail Road track,and which, in the year 1881, was used as alaundry, where the ^^Boys of Colon senttheir clothing to be washed. Frijoles maj^ be said to be the principal^^Water Station along the line of the RailRoad. As your train passes over the tres-tlework viaduct there, your attention isdrawn, at once, to the swirling sound ofwater near by; and the first impulse that3^ou feel, at the moment, is to put your headthrough the window of the car, and gazearound enquiringly, to locate the spot fromwhich the babbling sound arose. Then, b

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