[Footnote *: Many learned men have doubted the existence of
a communication by water between the Red Sea and the
Mediterranean by the Nile. Yet the fact is positively
asserted by the ancients. Diodorus Siculus (l. i. p. 33)
speaks of it in the most distinct manner as existing in his
time. So, also, Strabo, (l. xvii. p. 805.) Pliny (vol. vi.
p. 29) says that the canal which united the two seas was
navigable, (alveus navigabilis.) The indications furnished
by Ptolemy and by the Arabic historian, Makrisi, show that
works were executed under the reign of Hadrian to repair the
canal and extend the navigation; it then received the name
of the River of Trajan Lucian, (in his Pseudomantis, p. 44,)
says that he went by water from Alexandria to Clysma, on the
Red Sea. Testimonies of the 6th and of the 8th century show
that the communication was not interrupted at that time. See
the French translation of Strabo, vol. v. p. 382. St.
Martin vol. xi. p. 299. - M.]
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