. Scottish geographical magazine. a has had on the affairs of has afforded the British that experience which made themappreciate the value of water, and it was India which furnished to Egyptall the leading British engineers of her Irrigation Department. THE IRRIGATION OF EGYPT : WHAT THE BiUTISH HAVE DONE. 643 Professor Brunhes concludes his remarks as follows : WhilstFrench engineers have scattered over Egypt fertile ideas and ingeniousdesigns, and whilst they have had great achievements, they have notmade one work. They had never lived in a country where water waseverything. They
. Scottish geographical magazine. a has had on the affairs of has afforded the British that experience which made themappreciate the value of water, and it was India which furnished to Egyptall the leading British engineers of her Irrigation Department. THE IRRIGATION OF EGYPT : WHAT THE BiUTISH HAVE DONE. 643 Professor Brunhes concludes his remarks as follows : WhilstFrench engineers have scattered over Egypt fertile ideas and ingeniousdesigns, and whilst they have had great achievements, they have notmade one work. They had never lived in a country where water waseverything. They were industrious engineers of the Fonts et Chaus-sees class, calculating theorists, and able practitioners, but they werenever more, and could never be more, than men of great barrages andgreat masses of masonry. They were not, and they could hardly everbecome, the despotic organisers of water. The British engineers who came from India were c^ualified by habitand experience, even more than by nature and temperament, to establish. Coimneucement of thu works on the Nile Uaiu at Assiout.(Photographed by Professor Brunhes in February isyg.) an irrigation service which should be at once altogether independentand strongly centralised. To this end they gave their first care, theirfirst efforts. With the so-called liberal economic ideas which have solong exclusively governed his official schools, a Frenchman could notconceive this future role of the sovereign service of irrigation except as ausurpation of power. Britain, the would-be country of liberal ideas,which has always had the cleverness to recommend to the world theideas which would best serve her own interests, never troubled herselfabout applying liberalism towards foreign peoples, and had no hesitationin planting herself in Egypt, and, by becoming mistress of the Nile,becoming mistress of water also. To-day British capitalists, contractors, and engineers, have unitedtheir efforts in order to endow Egypt with a reservoir cont
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