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recrossed the peninsula on the way to Petra in 1828. There is a valley in the Sinai, once his contracts with the
African Association were successfully terminated, Linant "passed more than a year alone with a choice library in order to study seriously and without distractions in order to acquire what I lacked in scientific understanding to take up service with the Egyptian government in the character of an engineer."
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between the Nile and the Red Sea. "In 1827 and 1828" he wrote later, "I returned once more to the
Isthmus, which I visited once again and its environs, and it was then that I began the first studies of a project of communication between the two seas." These projects he discussed with Laborde as they
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Having taken advantage of a sound education that emphasized mathematics, drawing and painting, then having been given some experience at sea through the efforts of his father, Antoine-Marie, a naval officer, charting the coastal waters of
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Mediterranean and the Red Sea never left him. From 1830, he was expressing his ideas, first with the consul general of France, then with
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