Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1913 — Panama Canal islands. [ARTICLE]

Panama Canal islands.

"Floating islands’' are one of the sights to be seen at the Panama canal, as Well as in the Saragossa sea They are large masses of vegtatton and loosened from the bottom of Gatun lake by the rising water and blown out on the lake surface by everchanging winds. Om noon the workmen left work for hmch when the lake was blue and Clear as the sky. An hour later, when they returned, the surface of Gatun lake was dotted with small green Isk.nd*. AU due to a veer in the wind