Author: Egypt. Technical Reservoirs

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781230136158

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...difficulty of realising them, I did not hesitate to accept the mission which was offered me in the name of the Egyptian Government, under the sole reserve of the requisite permission being obtained from the Minister of Public Works, under whom I held my appointment in France. I thought myself justified in my acceptance by my great experience on works, having devoted almost the whole of my career in the French Public Works Department to the execution of works for the canalisation of the Seine, and in studying the works carried out or projected for the amelioration of the regime of the greater number of the European rivers, having already in 1876 been authorized by my administration to travel in Russia in order to give to the society of towage on the Moskva Reka, my opinion on the works there under execution for the canalisation of that river between Moscow and its junction with the Oka atKolumna; having taken an active part in five international congresses on internal navigation which had been held at Brussels in 1885, in Vienna 1886, at Frankfort on the Main 1888, at Manchester in 1890, and at Paris in 1892 ('), having already participated in the quality of vice-president at the international congress of civil engineers at the Paris exhibition of 1878, and as member of the Commission for organising an international congress for the utilisation of rivers at the Paris exhibition of 1889. Having eventually decided at the end of November 1893 to come to Cairo, I collected and studied all the documents which 1 could procure upon the subject of the Nile, but I thought that the Egyptian Government had given up for the present all ideas of having the Commission of which I have already spoken, when I received on the 26th January 1894 a telegram...