This plan contemplated a sea-level canal from Limon Bay to Bohio, where a dam across the valley created a lake extending to Bas Obispo, the difference in level being overcome by two locks; the summit level extended from Bas Obispo to Paraiso, reached by two more locks, and was supplied with water by a feeder from an artificial reservoir created by a dam at Alhajuela, in the upper Chagres Valley.

Mr. DUFFY'S work, depending as it does mainly on a flow of charming and even exquisite side incident, suggests that he is no more than beginning to tap a most extensive reservoir.

Who else would have thought of diverting the Euphrates from its bed into the canals and gigantic reservoirs which Nebuchadnezzar had built for purposes of irrigation?

The royal palace glistened with plates of gold, and the parks and gardens were watered from immense reservoirs.

The rain falls into the deep incisions of the letters, and has scarcely time to be dried away before another shower sprinkles the flat stone again, and replenishes those little reservoirs.

There was also a granary with immense subterranean reservoirs of water, and a stable three miles long for the Sultan's horses and mules; twelve thousand horses could be stabled in it.

Connected with these various palaces were extensive gardens constructed at great expense, filled with all the triumphs of horticultural art, and watered by streams from vast reservoirs.

But more. Suppose once more, then, that looking and watching a pond being cleared out, under the lowest layer of mud, you foundas you would find in any of those magnificent reservoirs so common in the Lancashire hillsa layer of vegetable soil, with grass and brushwood rooted in it.

For instance, it is said that there are pipes laid all along the streets, like hose, leading from a central reservoir.

Knowing the state of the internal secretion reservoirs enables us to predict the liability to certain of these infections of childhood.

The latter is found in a considerable reservoir fed by two streams from the high land of the Cape, lying a mile within the mouth of the bay.

But in the case of Esther, Mordecai's appeal unlocked an unused reservoir of power that has made her one of the world's heroines.

We discovered, in discussing the source of imaginative works, that the men whom we are accustomed to call imaginative geniuses do not have unique communication with heaven or with any external reservoir of ideas.

It was held fast in the trunks, and when those faithful reservoirs in their turn were crushed and commingled and drenched until at last they lay under the earth as the coal beds, they nevertheless held fast this treasure.

These accesses of new population have come in a series of waves, very much as if successive reservoirs of surplus population in the Old World had been tapped, drained and exhausted.

Practically every house has its underground reservoir, and it is estimated that if all were full they would contain about 360,000,000 gallons.

Conceive of "a sea of fire, on which we are all floating, land and sea,"a boiling, seething, incandescent reservoir in the centre of our planet; and the solution of the problem will seem to you not difficult.

For the same reason, London, which appears an inexhaustible reservoir of concealment to the majority of mankind, brought no such consolatory sentiment to my mind.

We, with a wholly civic tradition, have shown that in the hour of need we can draw upon an infinite reservoir of heroism, as splendid as anything in the annals of the human race.

That it held a deeper interest, that if it succeeded it would reveal an untapped reservoir of resources available for the church and the kingdom of God, did but make him the more eager to be at it in hard earnest.

The pump that compresses the air is on the engine, and keeps the pressure in the car and locomotive reservoirs automatically up to the required standard.

These are lofty reservoirs from which the long days glowing with sunshine send down streams of water at whose touch the deserts bloom.

What a magnificent thing are those mysterious reservoirs whence, at a given moment, flow thousands of pictures which until then we knew not that we possessed?

These are filled with water and serve as long, narrow reservoirs, from which the locomotive-tenders are filled while going at almost full speed.

Considering the matter, however, he concluded that there might be some sort of an outside reservoir which must probably fill up before the water ran into the cave, and so he came away.