Practical steps are about to be taken with a view to Hooding the Sahara. Mr. M'Kenzie, with a party of ten, will leave London in the beginning of next month fur Western Africa, for the purpose of making the necessary surveys preluninary to turning the waters of the Atlantic into the hollow which extends from the valley of the Bella to Thnbucfcoo. He is very confident that a canal eight or nine miles long will suffice to accomplish the great, operation which he contemplates, and bring the mysterious capital of equatorial Africa within six or seven days' sail of the Thames.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 120, 8 September 1876, Page 2
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101Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 120, 8 September 1876, Page 2
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