"On the following morning, the 22nd, I climbed to the top of the lighthouse of Port Said. It is one of the highest in the world—160 feet high—and its electric light is visible at a distance of twenty-one s. Its strong walls are built of blocks of the same concrete as the mole of the harbour—immense cubes of artificial stone, composed of seven parts of desert sand and one part of French hydraulic lime. The view from the top did not in any respect answer my expectations, for, beyond Port Said itself and its immediate neighbourhood of flat sand, nothing is to be seen but water on every side."
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Ernst Haeckel, as translated by , (reprint of 1883 original — In October 1881 Haeckel was in Port Said as part of his visit to Ceylon in 1881–1882.)
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Port Said Lighthouse
(Arabic: فنار بورسعيد القديم) is an important architectural and tourist landmark in , Egypt. Construction was completed in 1869, one week prior to the opening of the . The lighthouse was built to guide ships passing through the canal and is now the only structure remaining from the original Port Said infrastructure. Because of the buildup of silt along the coast of the port, the lighthouse is too far inland and can no longer serve its original purpose of guiding ships. In January 2011, the Port
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