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Excerpt from The Maritime Canal of Suez, From Its Inauguration, November 17, 1869 to the Year 1884
As a safe distance must be preserved between the vessels of each train, the time required for hauling into the gare is, practically, the time required for the garing all the ships, plus that occupied by the last ship in arriving at the gare. The ships gared must now wait for the passage of the whole train bound in the opposite direction.
The rear ship may be as much as 2 miles from the van, and as the maximum speed allowed is knots it is readily seen that a limit to this method is soon reached. Upon this fact is based the objection to the improvement of the canal by merely ex tending its garing facilities.
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