only is here given, which will suffice to make known the importance of
their labours, and show the practical results of their investigations.
[5] Extracts from _Communications with India, China, &c. Observations on
the Practicability and Utility of opening a Communication between the Red
Sea and the Mediterranean, by a Ship Canal, through the Isthmus of Suez.
By Arthur Anderson. London, Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill, 1843._
[6] Since writing this, an article on the “Suez Canal” has appeared in
the Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review, which, although containing
some inaccuracies of minor importance, and professing only to take a
general view of the subject, the writer would exempt from the above
description.
[7] Extracts from _Inquiry into the Means of establishing a Ship
Navigation between the Mediterranean and Red Seas_. _By James Vetch,
Capt. R.E., F.R.S. London, Pelham Richardson, 23, Cornhill, 1843._
THE END.
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[Illustration: PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ AND THE MARITIME
CANAL. ACCORDING TO THE SCHEME OF LINANT BEY & MOUGEL BEY. ENGINEERS
TO THE VICEROY OF EGYPT.]
[Illustration: Sketch shewing the MAHMOUDIEH CANAL, THE RIVER AND
RAILWAY CONVEYANCE THROUGH EGYPT BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA AND SUEZ, AND
THE DIRECT TRACK OF THE PROPOSED SHIP CANAL, THROUGH THE ISTHMUS
OF SUEZ.]
[Illustration: ROUTE OF STEAM SHIPS BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE EAST.]