SUEZ. 



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Suez. 



Before the opening of the Suez Canal, Cairo was connected with its port on the 

 Eed Sea by a direct line of railway, crossing the desert through the depressions 

 followed by the ancient pilgrims' route. The present seaport of Suez, lying at the 



Fig. 128.— Suez. 

 Scale 1 : 90,000. 



55° 58- 



Depths. 



to 26 Feet. 26 Feet and upwards. 



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southern extremity of the marine canal, has replaced the Clysma of the Greeks, the 

 Kolzim of the Arabs, which has by some archaeologists been identified with the 

 Tell-Kohiim, lying nearly four miles farther north, and by others with the station 

 of Arsinoe, afterwards known as Cleopatris, whose site has been sought farther east, 

 not far from the village of Agerut. 



