THE SOUDAN RAILWAY.
The constructors of the first railway across the desert in the Soudan are making some odd discoveries, among which water at a depth of 60ft is nDt the least singular. It is said to be good and plentiful, ard it will certainly make all the difference in the world to the practical wojking of the railway. We shall evidently have to revise all our ideas about the desert if a few engineers can construct an artificial oasis almost wherever they please. Plainly that splendid dream of MrEhodes, a railway from Cairo to Cape Town, is rapidly translating it. self into one of the certainties of the future, now that the supposed impossibility of finding wate* by the way has disappeared.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3624, 15 November 1897, Page 6
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THE SOUDAN RAILWAY.
Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3624, 15 November 1897, Page 6
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