| Show MEAN HEIGHT orthie OF THE ATLANTIC AND FIC ric OCEANS the panama star says on the th fuh ruh u hority onty of colonel colone 4 lloyd voyd an aal I 1 captain palmer who in 1827 1837 by fy order of bolivar made a series ceries cerles of levels from canam l to cha chare res it t has be ben been n very generally believed tint thel thele e existed a difference of mean level between the atlantic and pacific ocean and ami many ingenious ingenious theories hars hav been devised to account for kr this supposed fact and elaborate deductions in n favor and against tha the practicability of a ship canal h b te been drawn ther then from the diff rance of the he mean heio heiz heidht litof of tha the tb I 1 two oceans was stated to be feed the pacific at panama ben be n that much higher than the th atlantic All antic al at claires cl agnes ayes it has been lately decided by colonel totten aften afler a series serles series serles of careful tidal wal 0 observations taken her and in aspinwall Ap inwall navy bay and connected by accurate jeveli alonz alon aion the line of railroad hat that the mean hecht of the hp tuo two two luo oceans is exactly tl it e am amr allbough ail alt bough Lough owing to the differ difference enca in tha the TW rise of tide at both places thre th re are of course limes when one of the file oceans is higher haher or lower than ihan the the other but hut their level that is to say their hecht at half tide h now proven to be exactly the same T there here is no doubt that colonel I 1 lloyds error arose from imperfection in his in m rits and the difficulty lie he labored under in taking a large number of ob observations ions lons in wn ch mistakes are re peculiarly liable to occur |
