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Identifier: pickshovelpluckf00bond (find matches)
Title: Pick, shovel and pluck; further experiences "With men who do things"
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell), 1876-
Subjects: Technology Engineering
Publisher: New York, Munn & Co., Inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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TYPICAL MORNING FOG RISING OUT OF CULEBRA CUT.
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ONE OF THE BIG DREDGES AT WORK. FORTY TONS AT A SINGLE SCOOP. Severing the Isthmus. 37 explosion blew off the whole top of a mountain. Bang!and 30,000 people were lost in a tidal wave! A cubicmile of earth was shattered into dust! That is twenty-fivetimes as much material as has been excavated from the wholeof this canal so far, and youll see that there has been quitea bit of excavation here, when you take a look at the Culebracut in its deepest part/ On our way back to Panama, we planned to get ofF andsee the great cut of which we had heard so much and ofwhich we had caught only a glimpse from the railroad onour way up. A fellow-passenger told us that there wastrouble at Cucaracha. A slide had filled up the cut to aheight of eighty feet above sea-level. I had heard a greatdeal about these slides, and had imagined that they weresomething like avalanches; but now I learned that they arevery deliberate in their movement, creeping sluggishly downat a rate of two or three feet a day. In p

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