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Identifier: panamacanalinpic01abbo (find matches)
Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Iholu by Gav.^iZ BOYS SKATING ON SEA WALL THE STOUT WALLS OF PANAMA CITY 241 bridge and through the sally-port on the line ofthe Avenida Centrale. With drawbridge up andsally-port closed the old town was effectually shutoff from attack by land, while its guns on the land-ward wall effectually commanded the broad plain grassy, and broad enough for a tennis court fullthirty feet above the level of the town. The con-struction was not unlike that of the center wallsof the locks designed by the best American engineers.Two parallel walls of masonry were built, about
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VAULTS IN THE PANAMA CEMETERY The small sepulchres are rented for a specified time, usually three years. Unless the lease is then renewed the bones of the tenant are cast out into a common pile. on which now stands the upper part of the town, andthe declivities of Ancon Hill where now are thebuildings of the Zone hospital and the Tivoli Hotel.A good bit of construction and of military en-gineering was the wall of Panama—our own engineerson the Canal have done no better. Round the cornerfrom La Mercedes Church a salient bastion cropsout among fragile frame tenements and jerry-builtstructures. The angle is as sharp as though thestorms of two and a half centuries had not brokenover it. Climb it and you will find the top.level, forty to fifty feet apart and the space between filledin with dirt, packed solidly. On this part of thewall were no bomb proofs, chambers or dungeons.The guns were mounted en barbette, on the verytop of the wall and discharged through embrasuresin the parapet. Ra

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