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of a port in the Gabes Bay at the mouth of the 

 Oued-Melali river. Into this river it is pro- 

 posed to carry the canal that is to establish 

 connection between the Mediterranean and 

 the " chotto" 



The Washington Aqueduct With the object of 

 increasing the water-supply of the city of Wash- 

 ington, extensive improvements are being made, 

 which consist, first, in the extension of the 

 Washington Aqueduct by a tunnel 20,715 - 8 feet 

 long; second, the completion of a dam over the 

 Great Falls, entirely across the Potomac; third, 

 the construction of a new distributing reservoir 

 in a valley east of Howard University; fourth, 

 the laying of cast-iron mains, 75 and 48 inches 

 in diameter, from the new reservoir to the heart 

 of distribution. The tunnel, it is estimated, will 

 cost $548,100. Work was begun in 1883, by 

 sinking four shafts along the line of the tunnel, 

 their depth being respectively 69, 58-J-, 137, 

 and 162 feet. With the object of obtaining 

 the necessary fuel-supply cheaply, the plant is 

 placed on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. This 

 involves long lines of pipe. It is believed the 

 tunnel will be completed at the close of 1886. 



TheSnakim-Berber Pipe-Line and Railroad. The 

 Soudan conflict has forced the English Gov- 

 ernment to undertake a work that will be fol- 

 lowed with considerable interest by engineers. 

 Some idea of the magnitude of this undertak- 

 ing in the face of an enemy may be gathered 

 from the following description of the character 

 of country and its water-supply : From Suakim, 

 on the Red Sea, the foot-hills are reached at 

 the wells of Hondouk, 9 miles, and the mount- 

 ains are entered at the O-Taou wells, 15 miles. 

 About 20 miles from Suakim, and at an alti- 

 tude of 1,000 feet, the small valley of the Sinkat 

 is reached, where are the wells of Hambouk. 

 Twelve miles farther is the divide between the 

 Sinkat and O-Mareg valleys, which would op- 

 pose various obstacles to rapid railroad-build- 

 ing. Then for 25 to 30 miles the route lies 

 through small valleys, passing the Disibil wells, 

 and about 60 miles from Suakim a short but 

 steep and narrow pass, the summit of the line, 

 3,000 feet high, is reached, between Wady 

 Ahmed and Wady Haratree. This pass would 

 present the greatest obstacles to railroad -build- 

 ing. After attaining the valley of the Hara- 

 tree, the first large wells, those of Tamai and 

 Salalaat, 62 and 75 miles from Suakim, are 

 reached. At 87 miles from Suakim is a steep, 

 winding pass, which leads into Wady Kokreeb, 

 followed by 30 miles of barren plains to Wady 

 Ariab, 118 miles from Suakim. The military 

 road is to be built to this point. Beyond it 

 the first wells are at O-Bark, 54 miles, and 

 from the latter to the Nile, 68 miles, there is 

 no water. As a preliminary undertaking, a 

 pipe-line to furnish the water-supply has been 

 projected. It is to consist of two lines of 

 4-inch mains, with puinping-stations at inter- 

 vals of 25 to 30 miles. 



EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. The Eighth Gen- 

 eral Conference of the Evangelical Alliance 



met in Copenhagen, Denmark, 'September 1st. 

 Thirteen hundred and eighty delegates were 

 in attendance, of whom more than 900 were 

 from Denmark, upward of 200 from Sweden, 

 22 from Norway, 91 from Great Britain, 56 

 from Germany, 10 from France, 15 from Switz- 

 erland, 10 from Holland, a considerable num- 

 ber from the United States and Canada, and 

 small delegations from Belgium, Italy, Spain, 

 Austria, Greece, and Russia. Four of the bish- 

 ops of the State Church were present at the 

 opening session. A preliminary meeting was 

 held on the evening of August 30th, in the 

 great hall of the University, at which the Rev. 

 Dr. Kalkar, of Copenhagen, presided and deliv- 

 ered an opening address. To this responses 

 were made by representative delegates from 

 the National Evangelical Alliances of different 

 countries, of whom the Lord Mayor of Lon- 

 don spoke for the British Alliance, and the 

 Rev. Dr. John Hall for the United States. The 

 hymns were sung in the English, Danish, arid 

 German languages, each delegate using the one 

 most familiar to him, at the same time. 



At the opening of the regular sessions of the 

 Conference, Monday, September 1st, reports 

 were made on the state of religion in Denmark, 

 by Dean Vahl; in Sweden, by Pastor Osberg; 

 and in Finland, by Prof. Rabergh. These re- 

 ports were interpreted at a sectional meeting 

 of the English-speaking delegates, held in the 

 afternoon. At this sectional meeting, the fol- 

 lowing resolution, in recognition of services 

 given by a former King of Denmark to a Chris- 

 tian missionary enterprise, was unanimously 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That this meeting of the English and 

 American sections of the Evangelical Alliance, as- 

 sembled in Copenhagen, and consisting of Christian 

 brethren of various denominations of the Christian 

 Church in Great Britain and America, desire to take 

 the earliest opportunity permitted them of expressing 

 the gratitude they feel to Frederick IV, ancestor ot 

 the present King of Denmark, for his gracious inter- 

 position on behalf of the Christian mission of Great 

 Britain in Hindostan. They can not forget the emi- 

 nent services of such men as Ziegenbalg and Schwartz 

 in southern India, who were the first to introduce the 

 gospel into that vast dependency of Great Britain; 

 but they desire especially to signalize the generous 

 service, rendered with the sanction of his sovereign, 

 by the representative of the Danish Crown, at Seram- 

 pore, in tne province of Bengal, when 2 by the action 

 of the East India Company, the missionaries of the 

 Baptist Missionary Society were threatened with de- 

 portation from the country. On that occasion protec- 

 tion was given to the persecuted missionaries, and, 

 in the face of threats from the Indian Government, 

 the Governor of Serampore, General Bie, persisted in 

 shielding the missionaries, who had taken refuge un- 

 der the Danisli flag, from further persecution, and in 

 giving opportunity for the planting of the gospel in 

 India, which has now, under more auspicious circum- 

 stances, attained to vast and increasing magnitude. 

 The Christians of Great Britain, and of all lands, can 

 not but remember with the deepest gratitude the serv- 

 ices thus rendered by the Crown of Denmark, and beg 

 to express their profoundest wishes and prayers for 

 the prosperity and progress of the Danish monarchy 

 and people under the reign of its present gracious 

 sovereign, to whose family the Crown of Great Britain 

 and its people are so closely allied. 





