Engineering Operations.
(Special to Pee Pbess Association.)
London, August 28.
The whole of the work in connection with the repairing of the Suez-Ismailia railway is now completed. It is intended to overflow Lake Mareotis, or Marria, a salt lake situated in the north of Egypt, extending southwards from the city of Alexandria, and separated from the Mediterranean Sea on the north west side by a narrow isthmus of sand. The passage by which the sea found its way into this lake was opened by the Euglish during the war between England and France in 1801, but was subsequently closed by Mehomet Ali, and since then it has been a mere marsh. The dimensions of the lake are about 27 miles long and 25 miles broad.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4264, 31 August 1882, Page 2
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