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Updated: June 10, 2025
In an incredibly short time the craft reached the end. It traveled at an extraordinary rate; perchance 'twas weighted; I marveled that its windows could stand the force of the air. And I scarce had time to fear that the twain should be destroyed on that upturned spillway before it was there. And then an awesome thing happened.
I had already noted this flume where it emptied into the basin in the valley below; for it had had a new kind of a spillway affixed to it, a broad, smooth platform with a slightly upward curve, over which the water was shooting. I saw no sense in the arrangement, and made up my mind to ask Maka about it; for the empire prized this trough most highly.
The upper end of the tank, full width, was a broad spillway, sheened with an inch of smooth-slipping water. The sides were perpendicular. The lower end, roughly corrugated, sloped out gently to solid footing. Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God!
For, after the first excitement wore off, he found himself much more sore and stiff than he had realized. They were at Gatun now, and there Blake planned to get some views of the big dam from the lower, or spillway side. "But first I'm going back to the slide," he said. "I want to get some views of the dredgers getting rid of the dirt."
"I know that we are taking great precautions, though, to prevent the dam, or the locks, from being damaged. Uncle Sam is taking no chances. Well, have you pictures enough?" "I think so," answered Blake. "When we come back we'll stop off here and get some views from below the dam, showing the spillway." "Yes, that ought to be interesting," the captain agreed.
It is in form like a deep bowl whose outer rim is made by Georges Bank and Browns Bank, with a narrow, deep-water spillway between: its area is half encircled in the arms of the mainland, two conspicuous headlands reaching bodily seaward to mark its wide entrance at the opposite sides Cape Cod, Mass. on the western side, and Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, on the eastern flank, distant from each other about 230 miles.
The land has been purchased for the extension of the lake and the great spillway can be raised twenty feet higher if necessary so that a shortage of water is practically impossible. Each lock in the canal is a thousand feet long, one hundred and ten feet wide, and the average height about thirty feet, so they hold a tremendous amount of water.
It could only race and swirl along one channel, and that was the spillway of memories. Stuart Farquaharson the boy; Stuart the man, coming to her at Chatham; Stuart standing self-governed as her father scourged him with abuse; Stuart the lover; all those semblances passed before her until her world seemed peopled with them, and her old love grew clamorous in resurrection and insurrection.
Together they stood there near the great dam. There came to their ears the splashing of water over the spillway, for the lake was high, and much was running to waste. "Well, I guess I'll be getting back," said Blake in a low voice. "No telling when things will happen now." As he started to go away Joe remarked: "Where are you wearing your watch? I can hear it over here." "Watch!
Counting all the distance occupied by the locks we have the fifty miles. Gatun Lake was made by a great dam across the Chagres river. This dam is a stupendous piece of work, being a half mile wide at the bottom, a mile and a half long, and more than one hundred feet high. A gigantic spillway allows the surface water to run over.
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