A Californian circling the globe . solid masonry about three feet wideana the same in height. On one side of the remaining widthis a car track, narrow gauge, and on the other side is a rowof double geared heavy gate or sluice openers, built in Ip-swich, England. There are one hundred and eighty of themabout thirty feet apart. One hundred and forty of thesesluices are twenty-three feet high by six feet and a halfwide. The other forty sluices are upper ones, i. e., abouttwenty feet higher, and are eleven feet and one-half inch bysix feet and one-half inch wide. Its greatest, width at the bottom
A Californian circling the globe . solid masonry about three feet wideana the same in height. On one side of the remaining widthis a car track, narrow gauge, and on the other side is a rowof double geared heavy gate or sluice openers, built in Ip-swich, England. There are one hundred and eighty of themabout thirty feet apart. One hundred and forty of thesesluices are twenty-three feet high by six feet and a halfwide. The other forty sluices are upper ones, i. e., abouttwenty feet higher, and are eleven feet and one-half inch bysix feet and one-half inch wide. Its greatest, width at the bottom is one hundred feet, andits maximum height is one hundred and thirty feet. Aver-age width about sixty-five feet. The level of the water abovethe dam is raised about forty-six feet, and it is said reachesup the river, before there is any current, one hundred andfifty miles. The amount of water stored is estimated atabout 1,500,000,000 cubic yards. The greatest depth of wateron the dam in the lowest channel is about sixty-five < y. - < z 3 H O H f. : x - EGYPT AND INDIA. 255 The number of men employed in its construction averagedabout ten thousand, mostly Egyptians. The stone cutterscame from Italy. The contract for finishing allowed fiveyears. The work has been completed in four years. Sev-enty-four thousand tons of Portland cement and ten thou-sand tons of iron are used in the construction. It also tooktwenty-eight thousand tons of coal. Securing our tickets of admission to the barrage, as itis named here, which were given to us through courtesy,because we were Americans, we wended our way on donkeysfrom Assouan to the dam, distance about four miles, arriv-ing there about i oclock. In forty-five minutes more the entrance would be closed toall except royalty and a few invited guests. A temporaryrailroad station was erected near the east end of the dam,with a sloping gangway of about one hundred yards, coveredwith red cloth, leading to the top. Small trolley platform
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