There will be houses for the officers, barracks for the workmen, stables for the animals, magazines for the provisions, materials, &c. &c., for which we set down an approximate amount of 1,000,000 ----------------- Total cost of Art. II. for Works of Art _fr._ 84,233,200 Total cost of Art. I. Earth-works 72,000,000 ----------------- Total cost _fr._ 156,233,200 We assume that it will require full six years to accomplish the works, and that the expenses of administration will amount to two and a half _per cent._ on the total cost; therefore for this item will be required a sum of 3,905,830 A farther sum for contingent works, unforeseen 2,410,970 ----------------- Grand total of the cost _fr._ 162,550,000 DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORK.—Let us now see how this sum is to be expended, and in what manner the works may be distributed, in order to their completion in the space of six years. The first thing to be done is, evidently, to bring the fresh water into the Isthmus, in order to supply the workmen, and to effect the transport of provisions and materials. The canal of communication, with its locks, the irrigating channel, and the water conduit, may be easily executed in the first year, since these works only represent 12,539,384 _met. cub._, or, at the _maximum_ 6,269,692 days’ work, at the rate of two _cubic metres per diem_. Taking 300 working days in the year, it will require 20,898 men. In this part of Egypt from 30 to 40,000 may easily be had if necessary. In the same year the grand yards will be formed at the quarries, with all the railways, quays, and landing places, for the extraction and supply, on a large scale, of the stone necessary for the moles, jetties, and works of art. Contracts will be made with the manufacturers for the supply of dredges, lighters, towing barges, boats, and other machines to be employed in the execution of the works. In this first campaign, the expenditure will be approximately _fr._ 12,000,000. In the second year, eight dredges will be mounted in the harbour of Suez to excavate the channel and the foundations of the jetties. The operations at the quarries, the erection of the jetties, and the barrage lock, may therefore be pushed on with all desirable activity.