We find in LippincoLfs Magazine, a paper fn)m the pen of Edward B. Grubb, relating “ what he saw of the Suez Canal during a trip from Timsah to Port Said last winter. In this article we find set ...

But de Lesseps was certainly not the first to imagine a canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas—and, by extension, Europe and Asia—through the Isthmus of Suez. The idea was ancient ...