306 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



" 8th. Port of Suez on the Eed Sea. The Commis- 

 sion accepts the site and direction of the canal, but 

 the breadth to be 330 yds. instead of 440 yds., and a 

 second basin to be made. 



" 9th. The Commission is of opinion that the coasts 

 both of Egypt and the Eed Sea should be provided 

 with first-class lighthouses against the opening of the 

 canal. 



" 10th. A port for revictualling and repairs and 

 graving dock to be formed in Lake Timsah. 



" llth. With regard to the auxiliary canals of sweet 

 water derived from the Nile, the Commission declares 

 that it leaves the selection of the best mode of execu- 

 tion to the judgment of the engineers who may be 

 appointed to superintend the works, by arrangement 

 with the Egyptian Government. 



" 12th. Lastly, that it appears from the detailed 

 information given by officers of the Navy who have 

 sat upon the Commission that the navigation of the 

 Eed Sea is as good as that of the Mediterranean and 

 the Adriatic, and his opinion, accepted by the Com- 

 mission, sums up in so many words the judgment of 

 Captain Harris, who has made the voyage from Suez 

 to India twenty times." 



To Count T/i. de Lesseps, Paris. 



''VIENNA, July 8, 1856. 



" After the International Commission had closed 

 its sittings, it was my duty to go and report to the 



