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Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sailing abreast or easilyclearing each other in passing. The canal started from thePelusiac branch of the Nile, not far from Patumos, andskirted the foot of the Arabian hills from west to east; itthen plunged into the Wady Tumilat, and finally enteredthe head of the bay which now forms the Lake of Ismailia.The narrow channel by which this sheet of water wasanciently connected with the Gulf of Suez was probablyobstructed in places, and required clearing out at severalpoints, if not along its entire extent. A later tradition seems also to say that the building of the fleet was anterior to the firstSyrian expedition. 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph sent by G. Benedite. NECHOS VARIOUS ENTERPRISES 405 states that after having lost 100,000 men in attempting thistask, the king abandoned the project on the advice of anoracle, a god having been supposed to have predicted tohim that he was vsrorking for the barbarians.^ Another ofNechos enterprises excited the admiration of his con-
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THE ANCIENT HEAD OF THE KED SEA, NOW THE NORTHERN EXTEEMITy OFTHE BITTER LAKES.^ temporaries, and remained for ever in the memory of thepeople. The Carthaginians had discovered on the oceancoast of Libya, a country rich in gold, ivory, preciouswoods, pepper, and spices, but their political jealousyprevented other nations from following in their wake in the 1 The figures, 100,000 men, are evidently exaggerated, for in a similarundertaking, the digging of the Mahmudiyeh canal, Mehemet-Ali lost only10,000 men, though the work was greater. ^ Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph taken from the railwaybetween Ismailia and Suez, on the eastern shore of the lake. 406 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDEAN EMPIRE interests of trade. The Egyptians possibly may haveundertaken to dispute their monopoly, or the Phoeniciansmay have desired to reach their colony by a less frequentedhighway than the Mediterranean. The merchants of theSaid and the Delta had never entirely lost touch with thepeople dwelling

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