AN INLAND AFRICAN SEA.
It is to M, Ferdinand de Lossepa that Commandant Rouvairo, who is now on lis way to North Africa in company with an eminent engineer, owes tho liklihood of seeing his plan for tho transformation ol some of tho "chotls" situated betweon Qabes and Biskra into an inland sea assume n tangible form. After a further Burvey of tho country a new report will be drawn up, which will bo definitely pronounced upon by M. de Lesseps, who will in all probability join tho party in March next. Some idea of the extent of the proposed cntorpriso may be derived from tbe fact that the inland tea, if created, will cover a tract of around fourteen times tho size of tho Lake of Geneva. Tho construction of the canal connecting tho inland sea with the Mediterranean will have the- further effect in combination with the existence of the sea of isolating Algeria and Tunis, of exactly defining a large line of frontier, and of thus putting an end to incursions upon French territory by the border tribes. A reduction of the French garrisons will thus ho possible and a corresponding economy effected,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1341, 31 March 1883, Page 3
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196AN INLAND AFRICAN SEA. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1341, 31 March 1883, Page 3
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