Excerpt from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 23: July, 1912David stands at about 12 miles from the seashore, in an Open, slightly undu lating country. It is one of the most rapidly improving towns of Panama, on account of the varied and abundant resources offered by the surrounding country and the affluence of foreign.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.