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What were some of the problems the French company endured during its attempted construction of a canal in Panama?

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Though the French engineers made progress, eventually excavating over 75,000,000 cubic yards of material, they faced insurmountable obstacles:

inadequate equipment, landslides, floods, searing heat, and the ravages of malaria and yellow fever

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