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ItI _'a,- ..:~~::.: .. .:....--- -4- .n '*- I -I I Q2. - '"B ~I~ IR ~ II r__ __. 1 t -- IN --6- 5---4 21747-Panama Bay Showing Pacific Entrance to Panama Canal, Balboa, Canal Zone. In"this view we are off the town of Balboa at the Pacific end of the canal, where its waters combine with those of Panama Bay. We are facing the northwest, and in the direction of Miraflores Lake, some 4 miles away. The hills in the distance show how rolling the country is, even down to the coast. In the immediate foreground a tug is tow- ing one of the hydraulic dredges elsewhere described (see view 21745). To the back of this view (i. e. to the southeast), the break- water, described in view 21766, has its origin and extends from the mainland to the islanql of Naos. The distance to deep water in the Pacific is some 5 miles from this point. The channel of approach at this end of the Canal is 500 feet at the bottom. The depth of the channel here is 45 feet at mean tide, which is 4 feet more than the depth to be maintained on the Atlantic side. This variation is not made to accommodate any change of sea-level in the two oceans as has been sometimes errone- ously supposed. The fact is the tide varies much more at the Pacific terminus because r the Panama Bay being funnel-shaped, thus exaggerating the rise and fall of the water. Copyright 1913, by The Keystone View Company. |
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