Opening of the Sweet Water Canal, Suez, Egypt, December 29, 1863, British artist's impression

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Opening of the Sweet Water Canal, Suez, Egypt, December 29, 1863, British artist's impression

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 27, 2014.

Depicted ContentIn Egypt, the 130 mile fresh water canal from the Nile to the diggings of the Suez Canal is completed

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Opening of the Sweet-Water Canal at Suez

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Illustrated London News,February 6, 1864, p. 121.

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