. The Artizan. THE AETIZAN. No. 11.—Vol. II.—Fourth Series.—Vol. XXVI. Frou the ComiENCEiiENT. 1st. NOVEMBER, 1868. THE STEAM DREDGERS EMPLOYED IX THE EXCAVATION OF THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ CAXAL. {Illustrated ly Plate 338). As the Suez Canal is an undertaking of such vast importance we trustwe shall not be wearying our readers by the numerous articles which haveappeared in Tin: Abtizax upon the subject, both when it was first sug-gested, and lately when it is fast becoming an accomplished fact. Thefollowing description of the steam dredgers, which may bo considered assupplementary to those article
. The Artizan. THE AETIZAN. No. 11.—Vol. II.—Fourth Series.—Vol. XXVI. Frou the ComiENCEiiENT. 1st. NOVEMBER, 1868. THE STEAM DREDGERS EMPLOYED IX THE EXCAVATION OF THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ CAXAL. {Illustrated ly Plate 338). As the Suez Canal is an undertaking of such vast importance we trustwe shall not be wearying our readers by the numerous articles which haveappeared in Tin: Abtizax upon the subject, both when it was first sug-gested, and lately when it is fast becoming an accomplished fact. Thefollowing description of the steam dredgers, which may bo considered assupplementary to those articles, is condensed from a very interesting paporcontributed by M. Borol, and read before the Paris mooting of the Institu-tion of Mechanical Engineers. The excavation of tho Suez Canal is not of the same character through-out, the general configuration of the Isthmus requiring at one part cuttingsof considerable depth ; but the greater portion of tho length requires onlythe excavation of a channol through gr
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