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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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AUTOMATIC FLUVIOGRAPH ON GATUN LAKE THE NATIVE AFFECTION FOR THE CHAGRES 189
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Fholo by indtrunad it Indtrwuijd THE VILLAGE OF BOHIO, NOW SUBMERGED Beyond the Chagres River Are the paths that lead to death—To the fevers deadly breezes, To malarias poisonous breath!Beyond the tropic foliage, Where the alligator waits.Are the mansions of the Devil— His original estates. Beyond the Chagres River Are the paths foreer unknown,With a spider neath each pebble A scorpion neath each stone.Tis here the boa-constrictor His fatal banquet holds,And to his slimy bosom His hapless guest enfolds! Beyond the Chagres River Tis said—the storys old—Are paths that lead to mountains Of purest virgin gold;But tis my firm conviction, Whatever tales they tell.That beyond the Chagres River All paths lead straight to Hell! A much maligned stream is the River Chagres.Pioneers, pirates, prospectors and poets have viedwith each other in applying the vocabulary of con-tumely and abuse to it, and the practitioners ofmedicine have attached its name to a peculiarlydepressing and virulent

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