THE IXTEROCEAXIC CAXAL. ** 



hare very high mists, they would require an altitude 

 of nearly a hundred feet above the level of the water. 

 With regard to lodes, they must be sufficiently nume- 

 rous to admit of fifty Teasels going through in a day. 

 This is the total which has been reached at Sues, and 

 there is no reason why it should not be equalled, and 

 even exceeded, by the Panama CanaL It would be 

 necessary, therefore, to have double locks, side by 

 side, one for rnssels going west and the otibu far 

 vessels going east, and the construction of these would 



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fore, I would say that a canal with locks ought only 

 to be accepted if a canal on the level is proved to be 

 impossible. So with regard to the tunnel, which 

 should only be adopted if it is found that owing to 

 technical difficulties or excessive cost, the canal 



one." 



m. 



Thus far I have been explaining how three of the 

 without t*feu*g into account questions of 



persons, or special schemes, treated the general 

 and theoretical part of the subject To them it was a 

 alU of imliftn mm Ilii llui lanil In Thm i i 

 or the Bayano, by Nicaragua or Panama. In either ease 

 the traffic would be the same, and the nations of the 

 east and of the west would derive the 

 from the making of the canal. The technical 

 had quite an opposite task to 



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