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draft scheme was to be at the extremity of the Gulf, 

 will be established about seventeen miles further to 

 the west, at a point where there are 25 feet of water 

 within a mile and a-half of the shore, where the 

 anchorage is good and getting under way easy. 



" 5th. The cost of the canal, and of the works 

 connected with it, will not exceed the figure of 

 8,000,000 given in the draft scheme of your High- 

 ness's engineers. 



" The members of the International Commission of 

 the Suez Canal. 



(Signed) CONRAD, President. 



A. BENAUD, DE NEGRELLI, MCLEAN,* 

 LIEUSSOU, Reporter and Secretary. 



a A copy of this report was sent to the following sup- 

 porters of the enterprise from Alexandria on the 4th 

 of January : 



"Jomard, member of the Institute (Paris); Morris, The 

 Times (London); Thouvenel (Constantinople); Brusi 

 (Barcelona) ; Erlanger (Frankfort) ; Couturier (Mar- 

 seilles); Charles Manby (London); Theodore Pichon 

 (Smyrna); Edmond de Lesseps (Beyrout); Bevoltella 

 (Trieste) ; Flury-Herard (Paris) ; Count Th. de Les- 

 seps (Paris) ; Count Walewski (Paris) ; Damas-Hinard 

 (Paris) ; De Chancel (Paris) ; Marcotte (Marseilles) ; 



* Note of the Translator. Mr. McLean was the English Com- 

 missioner in place of Mr. Renclel, whom illness prevented him 

 going out to Egypt. 



