The Panama Canal
by J. Saxon Mills
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About this eBook
- Author
- Mills, J. Saxon (John Saxon), -1929
- Title
- The Panama Canal: A history and description of the enterprise
- Credits
- Produced by Steven Gibbs, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TC: Technology: Ocean engineering
- Subject
- Panama Canal (Panama)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 34124
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34124
- Release Date
- October 24, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE PANAMA CANAL — THE PANAMA CANAL — A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE ENTERPRISE — BY
- 2.J. SAXON MILLS, M.A. — BARRISTER-AT-LAW — WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS — THOMAS NELSON AND SONS LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLIN, MANCHESTER, LEEDS PARIS, LEIPZIG, MELBOURNE, AND NEW YORK
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 6.DATE HISTORY OF THE CANAL.
- 7.THE PANAMA CANAL.
- 8.THE SECRET OF THE STRAIT. — FOOTNOTE:
- 9.CANAL PROJECTS. — FOOTNOTE:
- 10.THE CLAYTON-BULWER TREATY AND THE SUEZ CANAL.
- 11.THE FRENCH FAILURE.
- 12.THE HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATY. — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.THE UNITED STATES AND COLOMBIA.
- 14.A MINIATURE REVOLUTION. — FOOTNOTES:
- 15.THE BATTLE OF THE LEVELS.
- 16.MAN AND THE GNAT. — FOOTNOTES:
- 17.LIFE AT THE ISTHMUS. — FOOTNOTES:
- 18.THE PROBLEM OF CONSTRUCTION. — FOOTNOTE:
- 19.THE CULEBRA CUT. — FOOTNOTE:
- 20.THE LOCKS.
- 21.THE COMPLETED CANAL. — FOOTNOTE:
- 22.PANAMA AND THE ISTHMUS. — FOOTNOTE:
- 23.THE NEW OCEAN HIGHWAYS. — FOOTNOTE:
- 24.THE CANAL AND THE AMERICAS. — FOOTNOTE:
- 25.THE CANAL AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE. — FOOTNOTES:
- 26.THE NEW PACIFIC.
- 27.THE ISTHMIAN CANAL CONVENTION (COMMONLY CALLED THE HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATY), 1901.
- 28.THE PANAMA DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, 1903.
- 29.THE PANAMA CANAL CONVENTION (COMMONLY CALLED THE HAY-BUNAU-VARILLA TREATY), 1904.
- 30.PANAMA CANAL TOLL RATES. — By the President of the United States of America, Washington, November 14, 1912.
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