and it is expected that the business these works will create will
attract settlers to the new country, who will start up foundries and
factories. It is the intention to furnish the colony with all the latest
improvements and inventions, and it is but reasonable to suppose that
the new land will soon become an important centre of industry.

The promoters of the scheme look for great assistance from England, and
have approached Lord Salisbury in the hope of gaining his friendship.

Europe would of course have a great deal to say about the establishment
of an enlightened and progressive race on the borders of the Red Sea,
and the new nation could not be established without the consent of the
Powers.

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Russia is about building a new canal, which, when finished, will be one
of the greatest works ever undertaken.

It is to connect the Baltic Sea with the Black Sea, and is to be one
thousand miles in length.

It is to start from Riga on the Baltic, and run to Kherson at the mouth
of the Dneiper River, where that river empties itself into the Black
Sea.

The advantages of this canal will be very great.

At the present time a vessel voyaging from the Baltic to the Black Sea
has to go all round Europe before it reaches its destination. Take your