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 | | This latter is situated at the northeast end of the bay, adjoining the southern and western sides of the city in a nearly semi-circular form, and extending from the palace of Rasel-Teen, by the Arsenal dock, to the terminus of the Cairo railway, at Gabâri. |
 | | The town, which is the capital of the province of Dahkalieh, is connected by railway with Cairo, Alexandria, and nearly all parts of the Delta, and with Lake Menzaleh, thirty-seven miles off, by a canal which is navigable half the year. |
 | | The town is now, as three thousand years ago, famous for its manufacture of porous water-jars and bottles, which are still in universal use throughout Egypt, and rafts of which floating down to Cairo and the Delta, form one of the picturesque features of the Nile navigation. |
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