HUGE RECLAMATION
THE NILE DELTA. EwTcleerapli—Preys Y ' .London, Juno'l9.. Hie Humphrey Tiuap Company Is as contracted to_ instnl ten pumps to drain Lal>o Mareotis, and raslaim the g.retii Nile Delta for cultivation.
Lake Marootis, ->yhlch, .- 1 ccordinc tp a cable It is i'ntemled to drain ifl order to ree.laiftt ths Nile, Jteltft for cut tivation, is a salt lagoon iti Lover E&i'tiir, separated from tto Jfeditorrano-Tft bf a long spit of land, on which is situated Ui a city of Alexandria, .At; etui time its bed. was nearly dry, but av.rinj? the i'rtflei invasion of 1801 the sea Was Ifit.in i.sy the English; who opsnfed broaches ia • tho strand between Mareotls and LalSe Abukir, submerging forty villages. . Its - i'.-ncth is 28 miles and breadth 2® miles.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 5
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126HUGE RECLAMATION Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 5
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