The Suez Canal, which celebrated the jubilee of its oflicial opening last year, is not the tirst waterway joining the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. Tht historian, Herodotus, mentions an earlier canal, constructed about 000 8.C., which never seems to have been put to any important use, and which was at last blocked up about A.D. 760. Ferdinand de Lesseps, who obtained a French Government concession for the construction of the present canal in 1854, had been forestalled with the idea by Napoleon, who formed a similar scheme, but never carried it out.
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Press, 1 February 1930, Page 21
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