Identifier: egyptsdnhand00karl (find matches)
Title: Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Subjects: Egypt -- Guidebooks Sudan -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York, C. Scribner's sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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aelites (Numbers xii). — Atthe 85th kilometre is situated (r.) the small village of TusUn, whichis easily recognized by the whitewashed dome of the tomb of asheikh. P^xcavations near Tusun have led to the discovery of manyinteresting fossil remains of large animals belonging to the miocenetertiary formation, and pieces of fossil wood also have been foundhere (comp. p. 118). — A little farther on (near the 90th kilo-metre) is the cutting which conducts the canal through tlie rockybarrier of the Serapeum (comp. p. 182). The canal now enters the Large Basin of the Bitter Lakes.Brugsch identifies the Bitter Lakes with the Marah of the Bible( Exod. XV. 23). At each end of the large basin rises an iron light-house, 05 ft. in height. The water is of a bluish-green colour. Thebanks are flat and sandy, but a little to the S.W. (r.) rises thenot unpicturesque range of the Gebel Geneifeh (p. 181). The bedof the Little Bitter Lake, which we next traverse, consists entirely ofshell-formations.
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SUEZ. 13. Route. 187 Near Esh-SliaUufeh (& station near the 139tb kilometre; secp. 181) no less thau 45,000 cubic yds. of limestone, coloured redand brown with iron, had to be removed in the course of the ex-cavation of the canal. This stone contained teeth and vertebra-of sharks, bivalve shells, and remains of Bryozoa. In the layer olsand above the limestone were found crocodiles teeth and the re-mains of hippopotami and other large quadrupeds. The monumentof Darius near Esh-Shallufeh is mentioned at p. 182. We finally reach the (Julf of Suez, which is here so shallow^ that,but for the canal, it might be crossed on foot at low tide. It con-tains several islands. On the W. bank rise the workshops andmagazines of the Canal Company. Passengers are landed in steam-launches. Suez (Port Tauftk ,• 160 kilometres), see p. 188. 13. Suez and its Environs. Railway Stations. 1. Arbaeen, for the new quarter of Arbain; 2. RtieColmar, for the town of Suez; 3. Terre-Plcin, for Port Taufik ; 4.

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