Reports of the United States Commisioners to the Paris Universal Exposition (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ... de Beaumont, senator.) No. 2. A collection of objects in natural history, and other things collected in Egypt, namely, medals and ancient coins, statuettes, pottery, mineralogy, shells, fossils, madrepores, petrifactions, reptiles, and butterflies. This collection, which belongs to the museum of Perphignan, and which the municipal council of that town kindly lent to the company, was collected, in Egypt, and presented to his native town by Dr. Companys, jr., physician to the Suez Canal Company. No. 3. A collection of objects of natural history, plants, Crustacea, mineralogy, insects, madrepores, fishes, and birds. This collection was made on the isthmus, and also in the waters of the Mediterranean, at Port Said, and in the waters of the Bed Sea, at Suez, and at various interior lakes, by Captain Baudouin. Third Part.--The diorama, executed by Eoube, decorator of the opera, under the direction of Mr. Alfred Chapon, architect to the company, after a complete and numerous series of photographs, shows from one end to the other the whole of that part of the isthmus which is traversed by the company's canal, as it exists at the present day, with the towns, the workshops, the machines, and the entrance-ports of the canal on the Mediterranean and Red Sea, Port Said and Suez. THE DIMENSIONS OF THE CANAL. The canal is 8n00 deep below the water-line. The breadth of the bottom ( " plafond77) is everywhere 22m.00, but at the water-level it is 58m.00, in that portion traversing El Guisr, Serapeum, and Chalouf, a distance of about 33 kilometres in all. In other portions the breadth is 100m.00. The slope of the talus is determined in each region traversed by the canal by the nature of the earth and materials thrown out. The inclination is never less than twro of base ...