This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV {construction or Gatun Dam The Gatun Dam has covered with rock and earth to a depth of one hundred feet the site of the old village of Gatun. This village, thus erased from the map, was located between the Chagres River and the old French canal. It had the appearance of having been there ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV {construction or Gatun Dam The Gatun Dam has covered with rock and earth to a depth of one hundred feet the site of the old village of Gatun. This village, thus erased from the map, was located between the Chagres River and the old French canal. It had the appearance of having been there forever and of intending to remain there forever. It was ideally located for the transportation needs of its inhabitants; having streams on both sides of it which provided mooring places for the cayuco or "dugout," the only means of travel and transportation for the villagers along the waterways in the Republic of Panama. This village'had easy water connections with the valleys of the Chagres, Trinidad, and Gatun rivers to the south, and with Colon and Cristobal to the north. The great buccaneer, Morgan, afterwards Governor-General of Jamaica, passed through this place in 1671, on his way to capture old Panama. The same route was followed by the "Forty DEGREES. niners' on their way to the gold fields of California. In fact, prior to the completion of the Panama Railroad, in 1855, this village was in the direct line of many expeditionary forces traveling from our Atlantic to our Pacific shores, including one made by Lieutenant U. S. Grant. Two old cannons were found that had been placed in a position to defend this reach of river. Its inhabitants could see no reason for disturbing such an ideally located settlement, nor could they see why its site should be utilized for the construction of a dam, and were consequently loath to move their belongings to a new site selected along the Panama Railroad east of Gatun. After their property had been purchased and they had been assigned lots in the new village and offered cars on which to load the material...
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