Show A kins undismayed by their experience ia the suez and panama enterprises the french are undertaking to build another great canal they have now determined to connect the bay of biscay with the mediterranean by a canal over miles long from to feet wide and from 38 to 31 feet deep and with widened places every eight miles there will bo twenty two locks each feet in length and SO feet in width the cost is at it is however safe to say that it will be much more it is claimed by its promoters that besides greatly expediting commerce this waterway will be of vast political significance if it could only be open in war gibraltar the strongest fort in the world would be rendered useless and france instead of england would hold the kc lo 10 h |