Chapter XXI: Building Miraflores Lock

This lock, the nearest the Pacific, is again quite different and is the work of a civil engineer, Mr. Williamson, and not of army officers, like the rest. Between the two forces, I believe, the most fierce harmony exists. The drawing shows the two locks side by side, the great cranes--they are different, too--towering above. All the ground here will be filled by a small lake between this lock and Pedro Miguel.