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REPORT OF BOARD OF CONSULTING ENGINEERS, PANAMA CANAL.


TABLE II.-AVAILABLE DEPTHS FOR NAVIGATION OF 160 PRINCIPAL COMMERCIAL AND NAVAL HARBORS OF THE WORLD-Continued.

 WEST EUROPE-Continued.


 Depth on bar or through
 entrance.
 Name. Remarks.

 Low water. Mean high
 water.

 Feet. Feet.
Amsterdam, Holland (North 29 29 Improvements in progress to obtain a depth of 33 feet.
 Sea Canal).
Rotterdam, Holland ........ 24 30 Schelde River:
 Flushing................ 29 41
 Antwerp................. 22 34 Improvements in progress to obtain 26 feet at low water or 38 feet at high water.
Dunkirk, France ............ 12 25 Improvements in progress to obtain 18f feet at low water or 32 feet at high water.
Havre, France............... 16 34+ Proposed to deepen channel to 29 feet at low water or 47 feet at high water.
Cherbourg, France .......... 36 52 Brest, France................ 39 58 Breakwater harbor on north side of roadstead.
 Roadstead ............... Unlimited. ............ Sheltered anchorage in 60 to 100 feet, and no less water to sea.
Gironde River, France (Bor- 29 42 Vessels of 21 feet draft can go to Bordeaux at high water.neaps and 27 feet at highdeaux). est tides. Tagus River, Portugal (Lis- 42 51 bon).
Cadiz, Spain................. 32 41


 SOUTH EUROPE.


Gibraltar .................... Unlimited. ............ Open roadstead. Anchorage behind breakwater in 48 feet or less, as desired.
Barcelona, Spain ............ 36 36 Depth in harbor, 20 to 66 feet.
Marseille, France............ Unlimited. ............ The harbor consists of basins lying inside a breakwater which is parallel to the
 shore. The entrance at the north end of breakwater is over 90 feet deep. The depths on the sills between the basins are from 26 to 48 feet and in the basins from 19 to 65 feet.
Toulon, France.............. Unlimited. ............ To an anchorage inside breakwater. The depths are 30 to 48 feet at the mooring buoys.
Genoa, Italy................. 60 60 Depths in harbor shoal from about 60 feet at entrance to between 23 and 42 feet at
 the quays.
Spezia, Italy................. 42 42 Harbor has depths of 30 to 42 feet.
Leghorn, Italy............... 25 25 To be dredged to 26 feet.
Naples, Italy ................ Unlimited. ............ Depths of 24 to 30 feet at mole.
Malta (Valetta) ............. 72 72 Depths at anchorage, 30 to 78 feet, as desired.
Brindisi, Italy............... 32f 32
Venice, Italy................ 26 28
Trieste, Austria.............. Unlimited.. ............ Anchorage outside breakwater in 60 feet. Depths between piers inside breakwater,
 30 to 48 feet.
Fiume, Austria.............. Unlimited.............. Depth in breakwater harbor, 54 to 108 feet.
Corinth Canal, Greece ....... 26 26 Saloniki, Turkey ............ Unlimited. ............ Anchorage close to city in 40 feet or more, as desired. Small breakwater harbor
 with 28 feet.
Constantinople .............. Unlimited. ............
Danube River (Sulina 26 26
 mouth).
Odessa, Russia............... 30 30
Sevastopol, Rsia. 54 54 Anchorage in 54 feet or less.


 AFRICA.


Tangier ..................... Unlimited. ............ Open road; anchorage in 45 feet or less.
Algiers...................... 60 60 Breakwater harbor; anchorage 60 feet or less.
Tunis Canal................. 21 21
Tripoli....................... 22 22 Natural channel through reefs.
Alexandria.................. 30 30
Suez Canal .................. 29 29+ To be deepened to 31 feet.
Zanzibar..................... 36 47 Several channels, depths 33 to 39 feet (low water).
Port Natal (Durban) ........ 24 29 Entrance between jetties. Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth). Unlimited. ............ Open roadstead; 33 to 42 feet (low water) at anchorage.
Table Bay (Cape Town)..... 35 38 Breakwater harbor. Depth at jetties, 20 to 30 feet at low water.