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Excerpt from The Panama Guide
First the city built up along the reef near the sea, then back into the swampy land behind the reef. The French added to it in the early s0''e by dredging material from their canal channel and depositing borrowed rock and earth upon the swampy land, making a foundation for their employes'' village, now a village of American Canal workers, known as Cristobal. When the American Canal builders came here in 1904, Colon had ten thousand people, and about nine thou sand oi them lived in shanties built on piles. At high tide the houses were surrounded by water, so that no one could walk along the streets back of Front Street without danger of falling into the mire. Since then the town site has been filled in, and the Panamans and the Panama railroad are paying for the work. Colon is clean, well drained, and healthful today, although it doesn''t look it. It has inhabitants, and there are in Cristobal. In 1870 Colon had inhabitants, and in 1896, Colon has suffered from several destructive fires, the more important being that of 1885, referred to on page 127, and that of March, 1911, when ten city blocks were burned and people left without shelter.
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First the city built up along the reef near the sea, then back into the swampy land behind the reef. The French added to it in the early s0''e by dredging material from their canal channel and depositing borrowed rock and earth upon the swampy land, making a foundation for their employes'' village, now a village of American Canal workers, known as Cristobal. When the American Canal builders came here in 1904, Colon had ten thousand people, and about nine thou sand oi them lived in shanties built on piles. At high tide the houses were surrounded by water, so that no one could walk along the streets back of Front Street without danger of falling into the mire. Since then the town site has been filled in, and the Panamans and the Panama railroad are paying for the work. Colon is clean, well drained, and healthful today, although it doesn''t look it. It has inhabitants, and there are in Cristobal. In 1870 Colon had inhabitants, and in 1896, Colon has suffered from several destructive fires, the more important being that of 1885, referred to on page 127, and that of March, 1911, when ten city blocks were burned and people left without shelter.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
John Owen Collins
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780331354072
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 338
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Author
John Owen Collins
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781330060599
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 340
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