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Title: "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Fogg, Wm. Perry (William Perry), b. 1826
Subjects: Voyages around the world
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calworking, a matter which, eighteen month?ago, was all conjecture, and about whichthe letter writers differed so widely. ThatiL is now an accomplished fact, and a success,no one with his eyes open can deny. AsLardner scouted the idea of ships propelledby steam ever crossing the Atlantic, soStephenson, the great engineer, and theEnglish generally for years insisted that theSuez canal would be a failure. Perhapsthe wish was father to the thought. TheEnglish government, too, must now feelheartily ashamed of its intrigues with theSultan to throw obstacles in the way of thisgreat work, from that national jealousy ofthe French which seems inbred in everyEnglishman—on the ground of philanthropyin behalf of the forced and unpaid labor ofthe Egyptians—for no nation is now reapingso much benefit from this new route otsteamers to India as the English peoplethemselves, The first great bugbear was the fancieddifference in level between the Eed Sea andthe Mediterranean, by which locks would be
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211 required, in accordance with the report of a -commission sent out by Napoleon I. in 1798:This idea was exploded by more accuratesurveys made fifty years afterwards. Thenext objection was that the channel wouldhave to be made through hopeless quicksandsat the southern or Suez end, and throughcenturies of Nile ooze at the northern partnear the Mediterranean, where no channelcould be made permanent, but the more youdug and dredged the worse it would be. Thisobstacle disappeared when it was provedthat for most of the route the banks of thecanal would not be of fluid sand, but of mud,clay and shelly earth—that below the Nileooze and slippery mud of Lake Menzalchthere was a hard pan of clay, which,thrown up, gave solidity to the banks—andthat so small a portion of the route passedthrough loose sand that no real troublethreatened the canal from the instability ofits banks. These objections being disposedof, it was then urged that the sand drifcfrom the sirroccos of the desert would r

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