REPORT OF BOARD OF CONSULTING ENGINEERS, PANAMA CANAL.


 The Board does not believe that a provisional treatment of this great question would yield results which would be satisfactory to the American nation or advantageous to American commerce, or that such treatment would be in consonance with the increase of population, of trade, and of wealth which will surely take place during the next half century in the Western Hemisphere.
 For all these reasons the Board recommends that the sea-level plan be adopted for the Panama Canal.
 Mr. Quellennec's indorsement' of this report is to be considered in connection with his statements qualifying his vote as recorded in the minutes of the nineteenth and twenty-fifth meetings.
 Respectfully submitted.
 GEO. W. DAvIs. Wm. BARCLAY PARSONS. Wm. H. BURR. Wm. HENRY HUNTER. AD. GUE'RARD. EUGEN TINCAUZER. J. W. WELCKER. E. QUELLENNEC.


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