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Before the opening of the Suez Canal, Cairo was connected with its port on the Red Sea by a direct line of railway, crossing the desert through the depressions followed by the ancient pilgrims’ route. The present seaport of Suez, lying at the

southern extremity of the marine canal, has replaced the Clysma of the Greeks, the Kolzim of tho Arabs, which has by some archæologists been identified with the Tell-Kolzum, lying nearly four miles farther north, and by others with the station of Arsinoe, afterwards known as Cleopatris, whose site has been sought farther east, not far from the village of Agerut.