December 1869: Suez Canal

Published: 12 December 2006  03:00 PM
Source: The Engineer

The Suez Canal has been blessed; the Suez Canal has been opened; the Suez Canal is a constructive success. That is to say, a success with limitations, a success bearing to absolute and complete success the proportion of seventeen to twenty-four or thereabouts; seventeen representing the number of feet of water drawn by the most deeply-laden ship for which it may be considered the canal is really available, and twenty-four the number of feet draft which the canal, if really complete, would accommodate...

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