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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
LAKE TIMSAH,
Midway in the Suez Canal. It is traversed by two arti-
ficial channels for the passage of large vessels.
of the land " of Egypt. There are
three towns on the canal, besides
villages and railway depots, and they
all owe their existence to it and bear
the unmistakeable marks of the up-
start. Suez, at the Red Sea entrance
(see page 359), represents an ancient port, but it never
attained to much repute till the canal revived it, and even
now it is a wretched little town, consisting of the usual Arab
mud-huts, a few shabby mosques, and some European
erections in lath and plaster. The new harbour outside
the great swamp that stretches in front of the town, and
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
LAKE TIMSAH,
Midway in the Suez Canal. It is traversed by two arti-
ficial channels for the passage of large vessels.
of the land " of Egypt. There are
three towns on the canal, besides
villages and railway depots, and they
all owe their existence to it and bear
the unmistakeable marks of the up-
start. Suez, at the Red Sea entrance
(see page 359), represents an ancient port, but it never
attained to much repute till the canal revived it, and even
now it is a wretched little town, consisting of the usual Arab
mud-huts, a few shabby mosques, and some European
erections in lath and plaster. The new harbour outside
the great swamp that stretches in front of the town, and