Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1882 — The Moles at Pord Said. [ARTICLE]

The Moles at Pord Said.

The northern harbor of the Suez Canal is formed by two mighty artificial moles or dams reaching 5,130 and 700 feet into the blue waters of the historic Mediterranean Sea. These moles are made from tho “rocks of the desert,” mixed with quicksand and lime, and, after being cut into blocks of thirty-two cubic feet dimensions and dried, were sunk to their places A peculiarity of these moles is that *'iey act like a sieve, through which the waters can penetrate, yet at the same time the power of the surging waves is broken upon them. The current of the sea flowing from the mouth of the river Nile in an easterly direction along the Egyptian coast,‘and carrying the eject-, ed sands and mud of the aforesaid against the west of the moles at Port Said, was the means of forming what now is known as Quai Eugenie. Facing this quai, northward, are long rows of houses—Port Said. The lighthouse is at the mouth of the Suez Canal. “Yes,” said the gilded youth of his friend. “Jack has a passion for proposing to girls. Why, I've known of nis proposing to Bix girls in a week, not one of whom he’d ma ry for a farm.” “Doesn’t he run a terrible risk of be ng accepted by somebody he doesn’t want ?” “Not a bit. He isn’t worth a dollar!” Boston Post.