On the communications between Europe and India through EgyptSmith, Elder and Company, 1846 - 73 Seiten |
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... This statue , consisting of a single block of syenitic granite , weighed about 887 tons 5 hundredweight . The distance from the quarries at Syene to Thebes is 124 miles . any which approaches the Lake Moëris in extent and utility 28.
... This statue , consisting of a single block of syenitic granite , weighed about 887 tons 5 hundredweight . The distance from the quarries at Syene to Thebes is 124 miles . any which approaches the Lake Moëris in extent and utility 28.
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... miles of the Red Sea , if it had not been prevented from entering the valley of Abousuer by the Pasha of Egypt , when he dug the new canal for the irrigation of the Wadi Tomlat . At the end of the month of February , the author saw a ...
... miles of the Red Sea , if it had not been prevented from entering the valley of Abousuer by the Pasha of Egypt , when he dug the new canal for the irrigation of the Wadi Tomlat . At the end of the month of February , the author saw a ...
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... miles , and the passage usually occupies thirty - two hours . The fare paid was 37. 10s . or 5d . a mile . Now the rate of fare on board the French and Austrian steamers in the Levant , is only a franc for a marine league , which is ...
... miles , and the passage usually occupies thirty - two hours . The fare paid was 37. 10s . or 5d . a mile . Now the rate of fare on board the French and Austrian steamers in the Levant , is only a franc for a marine league , which is ...
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... miles . As the English company had secured an effectual monopoly of the road , it was generally impossible to procure either camels or donkeys from Cairo direct to Suez . The ordinary price paid for the hire of a single camel before the ...
... miles . As the English company had secured an effectual monopoly of the road , it was generally impossible to procure either camels or donkeys from Cairo direct to Suez . The ordinary price paid for the hire of a single camel before the ...
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... miles in length to let in the sea , or forming eighty - five miles of railway through sandy deserts without a blade of grass or a drop of fresh water , but every body who has visited Suez knows that until the ancient canal between the ...
... miles in length to let in the sea , or forming eighty - five miles of railway through sandy deserts without a blade of grass or a drop of fresh water , but every body who has visited Suez knows that until the ancient canal between the ...
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afford agent Alexandria ancient Arab empire Austrian steamers barrage Beyrout Britain British Consul British Government Cairo Cairo to Suez carry CHARLES GUTZLAFF commercial communications with India Consular Corfu Damietta diplomatic East India Company England English establishment Europe and India European powers execution expense fleet Foreign Office France French Government French packets French steamers frigates Gibraltar Greece hostile improvement India through Egypt Indian empire Indian passengers Indian trade inhabitants interests interruption Ionian Islands Kench Kosseir Levant line-of-battle ships Lord Lord Palmerston Louis Philippe Malta Mamlooks Marseilles means Mediterranean ment merchants miles ministers Mohammed Mohammed Ali monopoly Monsieur Mongel month Myos Hormos naval force naval power necessary Nile Pasha of Egypt Peninsular and Oriental political port possession present projects railway ranean Red Sea render round the Cape ship canal Shishak shores sovereign of Egypt steam navigation Suez Sultan Syria terranean tion transit through Egypt transport Trieste troops Turkey Turkish vessels
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Seite 17 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Seite 14 - And they sat down to eat bread ; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Seite 17 - And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem : and he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house ; he even took away all : and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.