The Panama Canal and Its Makers

THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS

THE PANAMA CANAL AND ITS MAKERS. - By VAUGHAN CORNISH - Doctor of Science (Manchester Univ.), Fellow of the Royal Geographical, Geological, and Chemical Societies of London, Member of the Japan Society - WITH MAP, PLANS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR - T. FISHER UNWIN LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE LEIPSIC: INSELSTRASSE 20 - 1909

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED - TO - THE REVEREND CHARLES JOHN CORNISH, M.A. (Oxon), - OF FLEET, HANTS, AND SALCOMBE REGIS, DEVON, - BY - HIS AFFECTIONATE SON, - THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE

ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I - HISTORICAL REVIEW

CHAPTER II - ON THE CANAL AS IT IS TO BE

CHAPTER III - ON THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE CULEBRA CUT, AND ON THE METHODS EMPLOYED FOR EXCAVATION AND DISPOSAL OF THE SPOIL

CHAPTER IV - THE MEN ON THE ISTHMUS