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of a century ago" one-half Europe with its
regular houses, tall, and white, and stiff; the
other half p Oriental, with its mud-colored
buildings and terraced roofs, varied with fat
mosques andlean minarets" the municipal
improvements effected By the Khediye, have
In respect of lighting, paving, police and
cleanliness raised the largo Frank quarter es-
pecally to a level with most second-class
French and English towns, and placed it half a
century ahead of even the Christian faubourg
of Constantnople.
THE HARBoR.
The modern harBor of Alex andria, in which
the trade of the port is now carried on, lies
within the upper curve of a bay formed by
the two projecting headlands of Ras-elTeen
on the northeast and Cape Adjemi and Mara
bout Island on the southwest, and measuring
six miles in length by an average of two in
width. 1t is landl0cked on every side except
one-the southwest. The wind from this di-
rection is, however, the prevailing one during
eight or nine months of the year, and
from time INN nOrial the, "sea' thus occa-
stoned has seriously impeded the loading and
discharge of vessels in the roadstead by stone
lighters, as tho custom has hitherto been. The
Importance of remedying this great drawback
on the convenience Of his chief port has been
sion, but it was not till the threatened rivalry
of the Suez Canal had emphas zed the necessi-
ty that he finally decided on carrying out a
work of such magnitude and cost
Commencing Mt point fifty meters south
we st of the ,Ras-el-Teen Lighthouse, the outer
breakwater extends first in this latter direc-
ton for nearly l00J meters, and then, curving
to south-southwest, runs In straight line 1850
meters further, orin all above two miles across
the mouth of the harbor, inclosing an area of
more than 400 acres of still water deep enough
for vessels of the largest class. The primo. pal
entrance to the port is now, therefore, round
the southwestern end of the breakwater
which is 1850 meters from the Shore
while the narrow passage off Ras-el-Teen
affords ingress and egress only to small craft
and shore boats. AS in the case of the great
moles at Port Said, this outer sea-wall has
been constructed, up to the water level of
huge blocks of concrete, manufactured at the
neighboring Mex quarries of sand and Theil
lime and deposited pel-mell on the seaside,
with an inner front of rubble. The upper
portion of the work. which is of solid masonry
rises ten feet above the lowest, or seven feet
above the highest sea-level, and is of a uni
form surface width of twenty feet. In all,
about IS 900 concrete blocks weighing twenty
tons each, and 10000 tons of large and
small rubble stones have been sunk
in the foundations of this great work. Shore
wards the scheme comprises a broad mole,
stretching out 900 meters from the mouth of
the Mahmoudeh Canal and the harbor termi-
nus of the Cairo Railroad toward Ras-el-Teen,
and a line of quays, 1910 meters long, extend
ing from the same point along the Marina to
close upon the Admiralty Dock. Like the inner
mole, these quays are based upon rubble
foundation, with a superstructure of solid ma
sorry, and when completed will have abutting
iron jetties, alongside which ships may load
and discharge in all weathers.