Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 61James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch J. Fraser, 1860 - Authors Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle. |
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Page 134
... Bitter Lakes ( if it did not reach the Red Sea ) under his successor Darius ( B.C. 526 ) . If the canal of Darius stopped short of the Red Sea , it was con- tinued thither by Ptolemy Phila- delphus , B.C. 285-247 ; or sands had already ...
... Bitter Lakes ( if it did not reach the Red Sea ) under his successor Darius ( B.C. 526 ) . If the canal of Darius stopped short of the Red Sea , it was con- tinued thither by Ptolemy Phila- delphus , B.C. 285-247 ; or sands had already ...
Page 138
... Bitter Lakes are thus spoken of in the Report : - The Bitter Lakes , extending to a length of not less than forty kilometres ( twenty- five miles ) , and long since dried up , are separated into two basins ; a small one first , then one ...
... Bitter Lakes are thus spoken of in the Report : - The Bitter Lakes , extending to a length of not less than forty kilometres ( twenty- five miles ) , and long since dried up , are separated into two basins ; a small one first , then one ...
Page 139
... Bitter Lakes . The Report divides the entire course of the canal into two prin- cipal descriptions of soil : first , clay from Suez to the Bitter Lakes ; next firm sand , from the Bitter Lakes to its outlet in the Bay of Pelusium . ' In ...
... Bitter Lakes . The Report divides the entire course of the canal into two prin- cipal descriptions of soil : first , clay from Suez to the Bitter Lakes ; next firm sand , from the Bitter Lakes to its outlet in the Bay of Pelusium . ' In ...
Page 141
... Bitter Lakes , and from the northerly winds that blow steadily the greater part of the year , which will impart a counter current from the Medi- terranean to the Lakes . Any current to act as a scour they consider needless . Their main ...
... Bitter Lakes , and from the northerly winds that blow steadily the greater part of the year , which will impart a counter current from the Medi- terranean to the Lakes . Any current to act as a scour they consider needless . Their main ...
Page 145
... Bitter Lakes is as inconclusive . It is quite a different thing to fill up a canal by deposits , and a shallow depression of the soil many miles in length , because in the latter case the winds which blow the sand in would as readily ...
... Bitter Lakes is as inconclusive . It is quite a different thing to fill up a canal by deposits , and a shallow depression of the soil many miles in length , because in the latter case the winds which blow the sand in would as readily ...
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