. Review of reviews and world's work. icle in the Corrrtpondant. ofPari*, containing an account of this notablerngmrrring wr,rk and dwelling iijvin it»great economic irnp»rtance to France. , Pranri* Marre. talU atfrntinn tri that at the very time when tlir Hattlr ofVerdun wa% at it* height, the French Ministerof Public Work* presided »»ver thr crrnnonythi* . • thr \,,ny tunnel thr of thr Srrtlir. i he writer rrgar«ls this lanal as one of them<»st considerable—perhaps the most coiisid-r I able—of the public works undertaken byFrance in the course of the last t\\ctitv \r
. Review of reviews and world's work. icle in the Corrrtpondant. ofPari*, containing an account of this notablerngmrrring wr,rk and dwelling iijvin it»great economic irnp»rtance to France. , Pranri* Marre. talU atfrntinn tri that at the very time when tlir Hattlr ofVerdun wa% at it* height, the French Ministerof Public Work* presided »»ver thr crrnnonythi* . • thr \,,ny tunnel thr of thr Srrtlir. i he writer rrgar«ls this lanal as one of them<»st considerable—perhaps the most coiisid-r I able—of the public works undertaken byFrance in the course of the last t\\ctitv \ he cf)nsi(lers a careful estimate trom thep«»inl of view of the effort involved and fromthat of the result anticipated. He says: The material importanre of thr work in liearrotnplivhrd, thr naiiirr and nwinbrr of thr dilli-riillir* to br kiiriiioiiiiird, thr capital rii-Kagrd, the kiiowlrilicr and dariiiK of the enici-nrrri, nfftt a (plrndid rvidrni-r of our riier((y, 334 THE AMERICAN RElIEW OF REVIElfS. MAP (FROM A FRENCH SOURCE) OF THE RHONE-MARSEILLES CANAL RECENTLY OPENED an imposing; testimonialfinancial strength. On thconnection of Marseillesigable system paves therevolution pregnant withinestimable results, notalone for the regionsconcerned but for allFrance. The point in ques-tion is, in fact, to maSicMarseilles hereafter thedirect and normalterminus of the greatriver way formed by theRhone, in such sortthat it will play thepart on the Mediter-ranean that Havre andRouen do at the mouthof the Seine, Nantes andSaint-Nazaire at that ofthe Loire, and Bordeauxat the estuary of theGironde. At present, says thewriter, the Rhone isnot {jreatly vitih/edfor navigation owinp:to the swiftness of itscurrent, and, tliou^lispecial improvementsliavc considerahly in-creased the vohiiiu oftraflic on the river, itstill remains insijjnifi-cant in comparisotiwith that of the Seine of our industrial and or of the Loire. The article proceeds toe other hand, the
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