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Egypt, Sudan: 'Perennial irrigation and flood protection for Egypt'. Volume of seventeen...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/3008
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- FO 925/3008
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1893-1894
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Description (What the record is about)
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Egypt, Sudan: 'Perennial irrigation and flood protection for Egypt'. Volume of seventeen sets of plans and sections of the Nile; proposed reservoir dam at Gebel Silsilah; proposed dam at Assuan [Aswan]; site for reservoir dam at Kalabsha, Sudan; plan for proposed Wady Rayan reservoir; plans of dams. Keys to geology of the Nile Basin. Tables of population, cultivated areas and date trees; mean gauge and discharges of the Nile at Assuan and Cairo. Compass indicators. Surveyed and levelled by Reservoir Survey Engineers. Signed by W Willcocks, Director General of Reservoirs, February to December 1893. Lithographed at the Drawing Office of the [Egyptian] Public Works Ministry, 1893. Published by the Government of Egypt, Ministry of Public Works, 1894.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Lithographed, some coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 539
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3819372/
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