The 1912 caption reads: “Canal that Nero Dreamed of - This is one of the wonderful canals which helped to shorten the journey around the world. It is the Corinth Canal, cut through the Isthmus of Corinth, and it enables ships to go to Athens and then on through the blue Aegean Sea to Constantinople without having to sail round the rocky coast of Morea, in the south of Greece. When the Roman emperor Nero was young and energetic, he caused this canal to be be begun, but the work was put off and never resumed until our own time. It is miles long, and was cut through limestone rock in one part
The 1912 caption reads: “Canal that Nero Dreamed of - This is one of the wonderful canals which helped to shorten the journey around the world. It is the Corinth Canal, cut through the Isthmus of Corinth, and it enables ships to go to Athens and then on through the blue Aegean Sea to Constantinople without having to sail round the rocky coast of Morea, in the south of Greece. When the Roman emperor Nero was young and energetic, he caused this canal to be be begun, but the work was put off and never resumed until our own time. It is miles long, and was cut through limestone rock in one part 250 feet above the level of the sea. The canal is 100 feet wide and 26 feet deep, and jit saves ships 200 miles, Sailing through it from Greece, the traveler comes out in full view of the city where Paul made tents.” Under Nero, the canal was begun in 67 AD, but he was assassinated and work stopped. In 1881, the Greeks began construction and first shipped passed
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