Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries / With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals.

by J. Stephen Jeans

[135] Report from the Select Committee on East India (Public Works), 1879, p. xiv.

[136] Evidence of Sir Bartle Frere before the Select Committee on Canals, 1883, p. 159.

[137] Report made by General Rundall, to the Select Committee on Canals, p. 280.

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[SECTION II.]
SHIP CANALS.

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[CHAPTER XX.]
THE SUEZ CANAL.

“Let the wide world his praises sing Where Tagus and Euphratus spring, And from the Danube’s frosty banks to those Where, from an unknown head, great Nilus flows.” —Roscommon.