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Show THE SUEZ CANAL. The Suez canal was opened for traffic traf-fic in IS?, and at that date the depth of water was 26 feet. The prisont depth is about 32 feet, and improvements improve-ments are going on which will bring it to 34 feet. The original width was 71 feet on the bottom, and this has ben gradually increased until at present pres-ent the bottom width is 971 feet In 1870 there passed through the canal 486 ships, whose gross tonnage was 664.914. Last year 3,795 ships used the canal, and their total tonnage was over 19.000.000 tons. |