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penses of zone government and collateral costs, and water sup- 
ply, sewers or paving of Panama or Colon, which last items are 
to be repaid by the inhabitants of those cities. 
The committee estimated that a sea-level canal could be com- 
pleted within from ten to twelve years from the present time. 
The committee decided that under no circumstances should 
the surface of the canal be more than sixty feet above the sea, 
and estimated that at this level the cost would be $178,013,406. 
A thirty foot level was estimated to cost $194,213,406. 
With the aid of a number of fine stereopticon views the lectur- 
er was able to show his hearers more clearly the various points 
of interest and important incidents of the trip. In this connec- 
tion he gave a little lecture on geography, imparting a few bits 
of information not generally known. He said that it might be 
surprising to know that the Pacific end of the proposed canal was 
east of the Atlantic end. ‘To illustrate how little people ge»- 
erally refer to their maps and_ globes, he said that many 
would hardly credit that Rome was no further south than 
Buffalo, and that Liverpool was east of Edinburgh. The views 
showed in a striking way the shocking recklessness and wilfulness 
of the French in building the canal. 
