THE MARITIME CANAL OF SUEZ. 



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it be our endeavour to indicate a more excellent method, and induce 

 the Nations of the World to see, that in mutual trust, in frank con- 

 fidence in each other's good faith, ratified and controlled by the 

 unanimous voice of public opinion, there might be found more 

 durable security for the stability and future maintenance of these 

 new arteries of international trade, than could be obtained by for- 

 midable fortifications, and batteries of artillery, placed, as these 

 resources of civilisation, so called, would undoubtedly be, under the 

 control of one or two of the more powerful Nations of the World. 



