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SHIP CANAi,, ivOOKiNG e;ast : ISTHMUS 01'' CORINTH, gre;e;ce 



The idea of a canal through the Isthmus of Cormth dates from Roman times, when the 

 Emperor Nero started excavations in the year A. D. dy, but the project was soon abandoned, 

 and not until 1893 was the canal actually opened. It is nearly 4 miles long, some 70 feet 

 broad, and 26 feet deep, but the strength of the current running through it, together with its 

 narrowness, impedes its full usefulness. 



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of the old political leaders, who had con- 

 ceived the notion of choking him to 

 death with power, he has confounded 

 his enemies, amazed his friends, and jus- 

 tified all the fond hopes of the people, 

 who regard him as the embodiment of 

 their future and who have never ceased 

 to hail him as the savior of Hellenism. 

 Twice his ministry has been forced to 



appeal to the electorate — once by his own 

 wish to test Greek public opinion and 

 once because the constitutional limit had 

 run against his government. In each 

 case he has been swept back into office 

 with a majority of cumbersome propor- 

 tions — and he has rightly counted him- 

 self as a man with a mandate to reor- 

 ganize Greece. 



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