The Corinth Canal, begun 1882 and completed in 1893. The idea of cutting a canal through the narrow neck of the isthmus which joins the Peloponnese to the rest of Greece was conceived in classical times and seriously investigated by several Roman emperors. The present canal is 6,939 yards long, its bed width is 75.6 as at Suez, the depth of water is 26.3. It shortens the voyage between the Adriatic and the Piraeus by some 200 miles.
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