Deseret Evening News | 1903-05-30 | Page 10 | Joseph's Canal

JO CANAL CAAl C 11 There Is tc u In 1 more than titan years old It was waR an built hullt by bv the government under the direction nf or Jo oJo Jos Joaeph s ph the brother of oJ Benjamin the eon soi on onor of or Hachel null and Jacob Jal oh the eon son of liaise j the on Con of ot Abraham the c of ot the Lord It U is 19 known as ns the till lIr if It waters the province of or rn en endowIng do dowIng it II with fertility mind and supporting a 11 large population all nil there 1 j This Tile canal cOMI lira has been nn an at atto std to commerce It leaves the Nile lIp at al M ut and runs rune almost almo 1 parallel with It for tor two hundred and An l fifty miles until it gamma nn an fin fiB compared with th Ih the bed bpd which enables It II to turn through a narrow barrow pass pa s 1 Jj 17 feet teet above a oI the time mean level of or the river anti enter entera n a district shut oft off from boat the fertilizing Hoods floods on nil all de III penda Strabo o Pliny declared that the of or this canal furnished n a channel of navigation 1 and a Irrigation to nn entire province and sail moderated the so M lis to to tomake tomake make It ii habitable The Chicago Hec flee ord artL