1. For the entrance on the Red Sea side; to show what works it will be necessary to execute, as jetties, reservoirs, sluices, &c. if the present port is made use of. To settle the direction of the channel from the present anchorage of the roads of Suez, to the entrance of the Canal.
2. To show the exact direction of the Canal from Suez, to that part of the ancient basin of the Red Sea called the Bitter Lakes.
3. To explain how it is intended to take advantage of this basin, and whether, in passing through it, the Maritime Canal is to have one or two banks, or not to have any at all.
4. To lay down the continuation of the Canal as far as the basin of Lake Timsah, which is intended to serve as an inland port.
5. Works to be performed in rendering Lake Timsah fit for the object proposed. To give the length of the quay walls. In its passage through Lake Timsah, the Canal must be excavated of a greater breadth than in the rest of its course, in order to allow the vessels to lay at the quays without obstructing the passage. These quays are to be established, as far as possible, in the neighbourhood of the fresh water canal.
6. Course of the Maritime Canal from Lake Timsah to Lake Menzaleh.
7. The works to be executed along Lake Menzaleh, or in the lake itself, for the course of the Canal.
8. Is the opening of the Canal into the Mediterranean to be at the opening of the ancient Pelusiac branch?
9. To specify particularly the kind, nature, and dimensions of the works that will have to be executed in jetties, moles, breakwaters, reservoirs, retaining basins, &c. in order to obviate the objections made up to the present time, as to the difficulties or alleged impossibilities, proceeding from alluvial deposits on the coast, and the choking up of the opening of a Canal into the Mediterranean. This part of the scheme must be based upon incontestable proofs, exemplifications, and calculations.
10. What is the bulk of water that will enter the Maritime Canal from the Red Sea at each tide?