Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . engineering feat of no mean character and cost, as the entireroute lies through an arid desert. A system of waterworks, having its sourceat Cairo, on the Nile, and distributing the water throughout the length of thecanal, was therefore constructed. In the latter part of 1869, the waters ofthe Red
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . engineering feat of no mean character and cost, as the entireroute lies through an arid desert. A system of waterworks, having its sourceat Cairo, on the Nile, and distributing the water throughout the length of thecanal, was therefore constructed. In the latter part of 1869, the waters ofthe Red and Mediterranean seas were joined, large arid depressions had beentransformed into great lakes, and ocean-going vessels were sailing throughwhat had been a desert, The canal is 26 feet deep, 72 feet wide at the bot-tom, the sides sloping variably, according to the nature of the material, theresulting width at the top varying from 100 to 328 feet. Although not deepenough for the very largest vessels afloat, it will accommodate the great bulkof ocean travel, including war vessels. The total cost of this work, includingthe breakwaters, lighthouses, etc., at each terminus, was, approximately,£20,000,000, or $100,000,000. Unlike most canals, the Suez canal has no locks. The original plan of the. 352 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY Panama canal did. not include locks, but the revised plan provided for them,in order to save excessive cutting. The Nicaragua canal scheme necessarilyincludes locks. The water for the Suez canal conies directly from the seaswhich are connected. A canal with locks necessarily requires an ample watersupply from some river or fresh-water lake. If the Suez canal had been con-structed at a higher level than the Mediterranean and Red seas, had beensupplied with water from the Nile, and had, therefore, been constructed withsuitable locks at each end (as was actually recommended by some engineers),the cost of construction, as well as the perpetual exp
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