Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-25
|CHAS. BROWN HOME FROM PANAMA
Gives Graphic Description of 1000 Mile Trip to Tropics
 From Ocean to Ocean in One Day.

away and the huge dredges have open- ed wide channel 25 feet deep, enough for smaller vessels to go through, but will go still wider, further. and deeper before it is opened for public use.
 Any passing vessel before further completion would interfere and hinder the work of the great dredges. Day and night these wonderous iron jaws dive down and easily take up at a sim gle dip 15 cubic yards-15 tons. Each of these dippers will hold up 12 men standing. The steep and deep sides of the canal 200 feet down, when 1 was there the first time in 1910, are now at a flat angle along both sides of the canal for 5000 feet and extend back from the water 2,O00 feet.
 Many houses on the west bank at Culebra village have been carried away and still more in sight, almost totter- ing, will have to be removed. Deep cracks and crevases are seen on the surface at the top. The best opinion seems to be the slides will eventually be overcome and will sooner or later come to an angle of repose. It has al- ready done so in the case of the early Cacaracha slide, a little below. Other parts of the canal are of expressing interest.
 A little farther on, eight miles, where we enter the lake Gaturn, the great ar- titicial lake, A miles across. is of in- terest. The beautiful green wooded hills and mountains, the verdant isi- ands on every side, make the passage across the Gatum dam on the Atlantic side a veritable sea garden and para disc. It is most captivating by day and entrancing by night. A great white way from ocean to ocean, 51 miles; the waste power and energy from the 164 square miles of lake water is utilized and Is enough to light and electrify the whole isthmus, to provide power for the locks, move the cars on f l,A ie T3,fD, fn,- hn needs of Panama and Colon.
 A World of Beauty.
 The canal here is the whole thing on the isthmus. There is a world of beauty on Panama There is the beau- tiful and magnificent bay of Colon. as large and fine as any in the world. There are the thick wooded ridges and hills everywhere. There is beyond all the ocean prospect and Islands of the Pacific. There are 1.700 islands along the coasts of the republic of Panama. which is about the area of the state of Maine. 1,2O0 of which are on the Pacific side. The waters teem with fish, the air with birds.
 Taboga, a mountainous island 10 miles out in the bay, is an enchanted spot. We spent two days there. That | and nearby islands are soon to be utilized by the government for forti- | fiCations. We see now the govern ments military hand all over the isth- | mus. Before leaving, see the Pacific side, chamber up the great and com ] manding Ancon hill II 900 feet high | It overshadows the city of Panama | and the entrance to the canal like an aeroplane. Few tourists any many i residents never take the trouble to
 see this. It is the biggest thing in Panama. See Ancon hill and die-you l are ready to depart in peace. It looks i out over the Pacific and it's numerous 1 islands, the view of the canal IA miles and the northern horizon filled with | 200 green mountain peaks and ridges The view is the greatest sight in the | world.
 We tried to do it all, We spent i eight days on the isthmus. We bathed | in the Atlantic, the Pacific and in the | Gatun lake. We saw Balboa hill from where we could view both oceans. We saw the sun rise in the Pacific and set | in the Atlantic. We rode from ocean l to ocean, and all in one day.