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Mr. A. Henry Savage Landor 



[June 18, 



115 feet high, will be situated, and it' will be necessary for ships to be 

 raised by a flight of three twin locks from the sea-level to the level 

 formed by an artificial lake 85 feet above the mean sea-level and 

 filled by the impounded waters of the Ghagres Kiver. 



Having entered the elevated lake at Gatun, ships will proceed in 

 a southerly direction until they are almost in the centre of the lake. 



Map showing Direction of Canal. 



precisely above a spot where the rivers Chagres and Trinidad now 

 meet— on what will be the future lake bottom. Here the course will 

 be altered to S.E.,a oreneral direction which, with unavoidable detours 

 such as the one at Bohio and Frijoles, the canal will maintain until 

 Bas Obispo is reached, a distance of 23 * 59 miles from Gatun. Navi- 

 gation across the lake will be in a channel from 500 to 1000 feet wide, 



