Category: History - Modern (1750+)
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We have seen that the winds and the currents carry the detritus of the coasts reduced to sand to great distances. The currents however do not arrest the motion of the waves and...
6. Part 6We have, therefore, adopted the system of loose stones for the jetties and for the mole, with but slight modifications suggested by our own experience, modifications which consi...
7. Part 7To these details, we will add our own personal observations. We may say that the navigation of the Red Sea is always easy, from the straits to Raz Mohammed, because there are no...
11. Part 11I have made myself acquainted with the report which you addressed to me on the 30th of April, and I approve the document which is to serve you in place of instructions. I apprec...
3. Part 3At the expiration of the grant the Egyptian Government will take the place of the Company, and enjoy all its rights without reservation, the said Government will enter into full...
2. Part 2The question of the importance to the commercial interests of Great Britain of cutting through the Isthmus of Suez, has been considered in the most favourable light by the princ...
12. Part 12It is to be considered also, that as the beds of the Bitter Lakes and of the Lake Timsah, would form two very extensive basins in the course of the Canal, nearly half-way betwee...
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9. Part 9QUAY WALLS OF PORT TIMSAH.—The quay walls to be constructed in the harbour of Lake Timsah, for a length of 1500 _met._ are estimated at 1200 _fr._ the running _metre_ (though we...
8. Part 8In order to have during the heats of summer a volume of water that shall be sufficient for the irrigation of 60,000 _feddans_ (24,000 _hectares_), for the loss by evaporation, a...
4. Part 4| Taken from low water | Variation | in the Mediterranean | from the STATIONS. | at Tineh. | Levels of +------------+------------+ | 1853. | 1847. | 1847. +------------+--------...
10. Part 10Trade has so much increased for a period of ten years, and especially during the last three years, in consequence of the discovery of gold in Australia; and every year its devel...
13. Part 133rd. The direct track is the most natural. The Isthmus is traversed by a longitudinal depression, formed by the meeting of the two plains descending with an imperceptible slope,...