Abstract
IN the issue of August 24 a review was given of General Abbot's book on “Problems of the Panama Canal,” published this year; and in this book the construction of a canal with locks across the Isthmus of Panama, in preference to a sea-level canal, was strongly insisted upon. The October number, however, of the National Geographic Magazine, published in Washington, contains an article on “The Panama Canal,” by Rear-Admiral Colby M. Chester, U.S.N., in which the advantages of a sea-level canal are quite as urgently advocated. Accordingly, ifle only points which have hitherto been definitely settled by the United States Government assuming the responsibility for the construction of the canal, are the final selection of the Panama route for the inter-oceanic canal and the consequent abandonment of the rival Nicaragua scheme, and the certainty of adequate funds being available for the completion of the Panama Canal, the want of capital having proved the most serious obstacle to the progress of the works when under the control of a private French company.
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The Panama Canal . Nature 73, 198–200 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073198a0
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