| Show ITALIAN SHIP CANAL toa Is the me age of canals that is r ways made artificially for the ge of ships to carry the come corn le ot of the world wt W need not y to the bredt areat projects of this teeter ter which lauve bein been completed are under way bat a new scheme I 1 just been devised for a canal on western shore of the italian penin penia I 1 from the western E shore hore just re civita vecchia at Castre through fino ano on the eastern or adriatic e the route are two bodies of water ena na and trasimeno Tra lakes 11 I 1 is sed to drain those these and open the thus redeemed to cultivation arding to toe london figaro the tb of the canal will we be about i the width ol of it yards and iw lt ti about 13 yards so that ships of toun tonnage a e and even men olwar ol ot war be a able hl e to pass throna h it the of the canal is reckoned at N francs I 1 that is it iti mated that the work could be feted ted in five years from its corn com ment the italian journ sis are ly interested in the project and are ig up the matter warmly and the he fact of the long sea passage d the south coast of italy and up stormy amy adriatic to trieste and tee e is remembered certa certainly ialy the il would be of immense service to hole aole of southern europe |
