Papers From The Notes Of An Engineer - Tapa blanda

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De Lesseps, Suez, and Panama, whatever may prove to be the issue of the latter venture, will always remain great among the chapters in the progress of civilization. To review the career of F. De Lesseps and fully appreciate the vastness of his projects is to become forcibly impressed with the mans extraordinary genius as the projector of startling undertakings and his unsurpassed ability as a successful promoter. A broad view of his achievements inspires a degree of admiration for this magnetic character only comparable with the intense interest felt throughout civilized countries regarding the success of his globe-remodeling projects and their important bearing on the interests of commerce and navigation. More minutely scrutinized, however passing, as it were, from the poetic to the prosaic side of this talented Frenchman sschemes we meet with some disappointment regarding the execution in detail and probable fate of his last great engineering and speculative undertaking at Panama. This concern for the future of the canal and for the prestige so long enjoyed by De Lesseps grows out of an impartial attitude toward the undertaking, in which the present condition of things on the Isthmus is contrasted with the original promises officially advertised by De Lesseps and his company. In the United States it has become almost fashionable to cry down the Panama enterprise, and ridicule the efforts of the From The Scientific A merican, New York, Oct. 8, 1887.
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