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Excerpt from The Great Canal at Suez, Vol. 1 of 2: Its Political, Engineering, and Financial H& Istory; With an Account of the Struggles of Its Projector, Ferdinand De Lesseps
It is remarkable that the family of this eminent man should have been distinguished in the same way and have made reputations by their extraordinary display of energy and perseverance. The career of Jean Baptiste Lesseps, uncle of the hero who brought home despatches from the ill-fated La Perouse, making a perilous and almost unprecedented journey from Kamtschatka, in itself reads like a romance. That of his brother Matthew was no less remarkable in Syria, as a controller by force of character of almost barbarous potentates. It may be added that tlie sons of M. De Lesseps have distinguished them selves as diplomatists and administrators.
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