Help-Book for Travellers to the East
by Jabez Burns (9780217481960)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mensely to the traffic of the Canal, as it must necessarily be the highway from Egypt to Canaan, passing directly through the land of the ancient Philistines. There are other points of great historical interest connected with the ramifications and extensions of the Nile, and especially the various attempts that were made by the Pharaohs and their successors to connect the waters of the two seas, or to establish by the aid of fresh-water canals what has now been achieved by Mons. de Lesseps. Several traces of these ancient works have been discovered in the line or near the course of this Canal. THE FUTURE OF THE SUEZ CANAL. The practicability of forming a maritime Canal to connect the two seas has passed from the region of question to that of fact, but two other questions now agitate the minds of the scientific and the speculative?Can the Canal be kept open ? .and?Will it pay ? The special correspondents of the Daily Telegraph and the Daily News have both reported on the state of the Canal after the fetes, and have both had interviews with M. de Lesseps, who assured them that the work was completed. The discharge of workmen and the removal of plant required for the execution of the works, seems to confirm this statement of M. de Lesseps; but it is admitted that the Serapeum rock must be reduced, and some alterations must be effected to secure the free passage of ships of even moderate draught. It is satisfactory to learn from these gentlemen that the banks of sand have not suffered from the action of paddle steamers, but that the sand has been hardened by the action of the sea water. Nor has the percolation of sand through the crevices of the jetties of the unevenly laid concrete blocks, which form a double sea wall, extending to nearly two miles into the Mediterranean, occa...

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