THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED. 



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excavation were accomplished in a month. M. de Lesseps tells us that "were it placed 

 in the Place Vendome, it would fill the whole square, and rise five times higher than the 



THE SUEZ CANAL I DREDGES AT WORK. 



surrounding houses." It would cover the entire length and breadth of the Champs 

 Elysees, and reach to the top of the trees on either side. 



Port Said, which owes its very existence to the Canal, is to-day a port of considerable 

 importance, where some of the finest steamships in the world stop. All the through 

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