The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 25; Volume 36National Geographic Society, 1914 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 133
... material , have swept , with silent but ter- rific force , down into the canal . Now this onslaught has demoralized an entire railroad system ; now it has put the com- pressed air and water systems out of commission ; now it has bottled ...
... material , have swept , with silent but ter- rific force , down into the canal . Now this onslaught has demoralized an entire railroad system ; now it has put the com- pressed air and water systems out of commission ; now it has bottled ...
Page 134
... ploded in Culebra and enough material removed to make 26 pyramids , each as large as the Great Pyramid of Cheops , in Egypt , or 2,500 shafts , each as large as the Washington Monu- ment . LOOKING INTO THE CULEBRA CUT FROM THE TOP OF A.
... ploded in Culebra and enough material removed to make 26 pyramids , each as large as the Great Pyramid of Cheops , in Egypt , or 2,500 shafts , each as large as the Washington Monu- ment . LOOKING INTO THE CULEBRA CUT FROM THE TOP OF A.
Page 135
... material is no mean job . But when you reflect that each yard of this sliding material has rendered doubly difficult the getting out of three yards of other material , the true meaning of the slides will begin to appear . There have ...
... material is no mean job . But when you reflect that each yard of this sliding material has rendered doubly difficult the getting out of three yards of other material , the true meaning of the slides will begin to appear . There have ...
Page 137
... material they brought into the cut , this material amounting to 26.30 per cent of the total excavations for the year . The succeeding year saw the cut going still deeper and the slides growing larger and still more bothersome , so that ...
... material they brought into the cut , this material amounting to 26.30 per cent of the total excavations for the year . The succeeding year saw the cut going still deeper and the slides growing larger and still more bothersome , so that ...
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... material , have swept , with silent but terrific force , down into the canal . Now this onslaught has demoralized an entire railroad system ; now it has put the com- pressed air and water systems out of commission ; now it has ...
... material , have swept , with silent but terrific force , down into the canal . Now this onslaught has demoralized an entire railroad system ; now it has put the com- pressed air and water systems out of commission ; now it has ...
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