[141] Washington Irving’s ‘Successors of Mahomet.’

[142] Rubino’s “Statistical Story of the Suez Canal,” in the ‘Journal’ of the Royal Statistical Society for 1887.

[143] ‘Mémoire sur le Canal des deux Mers.’

[144] ‘Quarterly Review,’ January 1856, p. 257.

[145] Since then, of course, this difficulty has been conquered by the use of steam dredgers.

[146] This letter is reproduced from an excellent article on the subject of the Suez Canal in Engineering of December 7, 1883, p. 52.

[147] In 1886 the transit and navigation receipts were over 2,500,000l.

[148] The following are the details of the contracts for works on Suez Canal:—

Dussaud frères,
Marseilles.		Aiton, Glasgow.Couvreux, Paris. Borel and Levalley,
Paris.
20th October, 1863. 13th January, 1864. 1st October, 1863. 1st April, 1864.
250,000 blocks of 21,700,000 cubic 9,000,000 cubic 24,500,000 cubic
 artificial stone of  metres of  metres of  metres of
 1 cubic metre each  excavations  excavations at  excavations at
 (35⅓ cubic feet),  at 1·35 fr.  1·60 frs  2·28 frs.
 and weighing The plant ceded14,000,000 frs.56,000,000 frs.
 20 tons, at 40 frs.  to the contractor560,000l.2,240,000l.
 each.  by the company Enlargement and Continuation and
10,000,000 frs.  brings the price  deepening of the  completion of 53
400,000l.  up to 1·60 fr.  great El Guisr  miles of cutting
34,720,000 frs.  trench, over 8  from Lake Timsah
1,388,800l.  miles long.  to Red Sea.
Contract afterwards
 cancelled, and Second contract.
 transferred to Transfer of Aiton’s
 Borel and Levalley.  contract.

[149] We do not, of course, include the Panama Canal, which is not, and may never be, completed.