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CHAPTER XIV.

Anticipated benefits of Steam Navigation—Railroad from Cairo
to Suez—Mode of traversing the Desert with Passengers—
Passage by the Euphrates—Expedition of Colonel Chesney
arid Lieutenant Lynch—Importance of the Euphrates' Route—
Red Sea always Navigable—Prevalent Winds — Hints for Na­
vigating a Steamer in the Voyage from India—Island of
Socotra—North-east Monsoon, $c., <^c.

To ascertain how far its passage could be made
available for steamers was one of the prin­
cipal objects to which our attention was di­

rected during the late survey of the Red Sea.
Nothing, however, connected with its naviga­
tion, beyond what will be found in the pre­
ceding chapters, has yet been made public;
and, however much their value might have
been enhanced, had the following remarks

emanated from those more immediately in
command of the expedition, yet, as I was long