Isthmus of Suez

In the Isthmus of Suez, which is considered the healthiest part of Egypt, an alien population of twenty thousand persons failed in the course of ten years to rear one infant born upon the soil.

Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895. John Wesley Edward 1896

In the great future, whoever commands these routes, especially together with that of the Isthmus of Suez, which I visited a few months since, and which Louis Napoleon has nearly completed, will command the commerce of the world, and, as a consequence, ultimately control the institutions of the world.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

A British subject can therefore travel on British soil from Cape Town via the Isthmus of Suez, to Siam, covering a distance as the crow flies of something like 10,000 miles.

The American Empire Scott Nearing 1933

It is bounded on the west by the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the east by the Persian

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

Pony was ashamed to say that he did not suppose that geography had anything to do with the river at the Boy's Town, for it was not down on the map, like Behring Straits and the Isthmus of Suez.

The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story William Dean Howells 1878

In an article in Aus der Natur, vol. 57, p. 443, it is stated that the rain on the Isthmus of Suez has increased since the opening of the canal, and has enlarged the evaporable surface of the country; but this cannot be accepted as an established fact without further evidence.

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical) 1874

The cutting of the Isthmus of Suez -- the grandest and most truly cosmopolite physical improvement ever undertaken by man -- threatens none of these dangers, and its only immediate geographical effect will probably be that interchange between the aquatic animal and vegetable life of two seas and two zones to which I alluded in a former chapter [2].

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 06 (historical) 1874

I am engaged, as Bellasis knows, in cutting across the Isthmus of Suez; and though I have got so far as to let the water into the canal, there is an awkward rock in mid-channel near the mouth which takes a great deal of picking and blasting, and no man-of-war will be able to pass through till I get rid of it.

Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 Robert Ornsby 1854

She was probably a British cruiser, perhaps bringing news for them -- a mail _via_ the Isthmus of Suez and the Red

The Three Commanders William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The cutting of the Isthmus of Suez -- the grandest and most truly cosmopolite physical improvement ever undertaken by man -- threatens none of these dangers, and its only immediate geographical effect will probably be that interchange between the aquatic animal and vegetable life of two seas and two zones to which I alluded in a former chapter.

The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841