One might think from this statement that the drawer of the brief considered the contention that the sea-level type would cost a little though not much more than the other type, a positive argument in favor of the sea-level canal.
Three of the American engineers and all five of the foreign engineers voted in favor of a sea-level canal.
Doubt as to the stability of such a structure led some of the members of the Board of Consulting Engineers to recommend a sea-level canal.
The Suez Canal is a sea-level canal, and it was the one best known to European engineers.
The majority of the members, including all the foreign members, approved a sea-level canal.
It is carried round the next desert point, and to the north becomes the high-level canal.
It will be seen, beginning on the east or right bank of the river, that a high-level canal from an upper system is carried past a steep slope, where perhaps it is cut entirely out of rock, and it divides into two.
The foreign members of an International Board of Consulting Engineers which visits the canal at the invitation of the United States report in favor of a sea-level canal; American members, in the minority, report in favor of the lock canal.
The commission decides on a lock canal, instead of a sea-level canal as originally planned.
The high-level canal was preferred by the Commission to the sea-level at Panama, and on the Nicaraguan route only a high-level canal is possible, so that in this respect the two routes were considered to be on a par.
The American delegates were convinced, in the light of their knowledge and experience, that a sea-level canal would be impracticable, if not impossible.
In spite of these obstacles, De Lesseps, with undaunted courage, proceeded to organize a company for the construction of a sea-level canal.
The final vote was seventy-five in favor of and eight opposed to a sea-level canal.
The plan adopted was for a sea-level canal having a depth of 29.
We have seen that the French began with the idea of a tide-level canal.
Such a canal would undoubtedly be best in the end, if feasible; and I feel that one of the chief advantages of the Panama route is that ultimately a sea-level canal will be a possibility.
As usual in all such matters, the authorities were about equally divided, half of the engineers being strongly in favor of a sea-level canal, and the other half advocating what was called a lock canal.
In the first place, it would take twice as long to construct a sea-level canal as it would a lock canal.
It was agreed at that time that the change in plan did not contemplate abandonment of the sea-level Canal, which was ultimately to be secured, but merely its postponement for the time being.
Work was prosecuted on the sea-level canal until 1887, when a change to the lock type was made, in order to secure the use of the Canal for navigation as soon as possible.
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