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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4576, 22 February 1893, Page 4

A graphic extract from the private letter of a lady correspondent, describing the Panama Canal works as they now are, is forwarded to the London Daily News by Mr J. Wells Thatcher, Purley:— "We went on shore at Colon and for a long drive. We Baw evidence of the greatest disgrace of the century in the engineering line. Miles of trucks falling to pieces — flowers and ferns all growing over them. Then we walked to the engine sheds, where there were about fifty engines eaten up with rust. I picked up some ferns which had flourished on one of them. They are of j historical interest, so I will enclose them. ! In the canal there were about fifty dredgers and steamers, besides launches and boats, all going to rack and ruin.. Half the town uninhabited, as three-fourths of the town consisted of engineers' houses. M. Leßseps ran out a strip of land into the sea in order to build his house on it. This alone cost a large fortune. It now looks wretched, as does that of his eon (who nerer came to Colon), which is in the same condition. Both are approached by an avenue of palms. The whole place is the most miserable, God-forsaken hole you can imagine. That one drive round the place was quite suificienK"

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