The Western Journal, of Agriculture, Manufactures, Mechanic Arts, Internal Improvement, Commerce, And General Literature
The Western Journal, of Agriculture, Manufactures, Mechanic Arts, Internal Improvement, Commerce, And General Literature
Tarver, M. (Micajah)
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To come to such a conclu- sion quite a large number of facts must be taken into consideration, such facts as are difficult of access in America, and which he has seen no attempt to collect on the part of those who urge the argument with the greatest zeal. Let us relieve these dry details for a few moments by a historical reminiscence, and then sum up all the facts in our pos* Digitized by Google r 156 . Commerce of the East. i Besfion, from which the reader will be left to make his owa inferene...e?. It is well known that there was anciently a canal from the Nile to the Bed Sea. The historical facts which have come down to us are as follows : Herodotus says (B. II,) that a canal was cut from the Nile above the city of Bubestis ; that it turned a mounttdn from the west to the east, and afterwards turned south to the Bed Sea.. He attributes its commencemont to Nechos, the son of Psammetious (616 B. C.) but gives its completion to Darius Hystaspes, (521 B. C.) It was four days navigation and four ships could pass abreast.
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