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Show Flvt Important Canal. Suet canal cuts through the lath- , mug of Suez and connects tha Medlt- . erranean with the Bed sea, and la about 100 miles long. Panama canal cuts through the Isthmus of Panama from Colon on the Carrlbbean sea to the Bay of Panama on the Pacific ocean, and Is about 40 miles long. Manchester Ship canal is about 8S.5 miles long, runs from the Mersey a Kastharu, Just above Liverpool, to Manchester. Kiel canal runs from Holenau on the Baltic to Brunsbuttel on the Elbe, and Is about 60 miles long. Cape Cod canal, excavated across Cape Cod, connecting Bussard's bay with Barnstable bay at Sandwich, Mass., Is aight miles !. |