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pleted, the cross strip at L and / will be removed and the streams, 
taking a straight course through the larger channels, will leave the 
present beds M and m, nearly or completely dry. Piles will now 
be driven into the mud, and on them the dams E and e, will be con- 
structed, the former 1000 feet, and the latter 820 feet in length, 
each 34 feet in height. Canals, with locks, will also be made at H 
and f for the passage of boats up and down the stream. I and [are 
canals uniting into the larger one K, which will afterwards branch 
off into an infinity of others, and irrigate the whole length and breadth 
of the Delta. Others may also be led, in a similar manner, towards 
the deserts. At K, are gates for checking the admission of the wa- 
ter, when this is necessary. 
- You will see at once, that it is a prodigious undertaking ; but per- 
sons in our country, can scarcely form an idea of the difficulties that 
are to be surmounted. It is, as Mon. Lenon, justly observed, as if 
he were to commence operations in the Lybian desert itself. He 
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