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... French engineers , who accompanied Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt at the close of the eighteenth century , put an end to all cavil upon the subject . This canal partially connected , there can be no doubt , the Red Sea with the ...
... French engineers , who accompanied Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt at the close of the eighteenth century , put an end to all cavil upon the subject . This canal partially connected , there can be no doubt , the Red Sea with the ...
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... French translation— a cruel dearth at Medina in the eighteenth year of the Hegira ( A. D. 639 ) , under the caliphat of Omar , Prince of the Faithful . Omar consequently wrote to Amrou , who was in Egypt , in the following terms ...
... French translation— a cruel dearth at Medina in the eighteenth year of the Hegira ( A. D. 639 ) , under the caliphat of Omar , Prince of the Faithful . Omar consequently wrote to Amrou , who was in Egypt , in the following terms ...
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... French survey . M. Hendy says Amrou redug the canal in the 23d of the Hegira , A. D. 643-4 , and that it was finished in six months ; so that on the seventh vessels passed from the Nile to the Red Sea . It was finally blocked up A. D. ...
... French survey . M. Hendy says Amrou redug the canal in the 23d of the Hegira , A. D. 643-4 , and that it was finished in six months ; so that on the seventh vessels passed from the Nile to the Red Sea . It was finally blocked up A. D. ...
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... French engineers , is a very extraordinary one , and we cannot help thinking his auditor must have misunderstood him : - ' After a comfortable breakfast at the hotel , which is kept by two Englishwomen , we went to an eminence near ...
... French engineers , is a very extraordinary one , and we cannot help thinking his auditor must have misunderstood him : - ' After a comfortable breakfast at the hotel , which is kept by two Englishwomen , we went to an eminence near ...
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... French engineers who reported in favour of such a plan , themselves admit that the long water - passage they proposed to effect from Suez to the Mediter- ranean could only , if their most favourable anticipations were realised , be kept ...
... French engineers who reported in favour of such a plan , themselves admit that the long water - passage they proposed to effect from Suez to the Mediter- ranean could only , if their most favourable anticipations were realised , be kept ...
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Page 1 - And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Page 17 - For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as was before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Page 29 - ... jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions, but facts ; for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.
Page 27 - It is a plea available only to the defendant : no plaintiff can offer it as a supplementary ground of action. Thus, if any suit could be brought against Lord Byron, for the purpose of compelling him to put into court a certain quantity of poetry...
Page 2 - The gross exaggerations of the powers of the locomotive steam-engine (or, to speak in plain English, the steam-carriage), may delude for a time, but must end in the mortification of those concerned.
Page 29 - It was conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air; precipices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the native bed; ravines of hideous depth were filled up with solid masonry ; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appal the most courageous engineer of modern times, were encountered and successfully overcome.
Page 27 - Byron, for the purpose of compelling him to put into court a certain quantity of poetry, and if judgment were given against him, it is highly probable that an exception would be taken were he to deliver for poetry the contents of this volume. To this he might plead minority; but, as he now makes voluntary tender of the article, he hath no right to sue, on that ground, for the price in good current praise, should the goods be unmarketable.
Page 29 - ... -down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer...
Page 32 - ... rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants.