SUEZ, a seaport-town of Egypt, situated at the head of the Gulf of Suez, the western and longer of the two arms in which the Red Sea terminates,—76 miles E. of Cairo, in Lat. 29. 57. 30. N., Long. 32. 31. 30. E. It is a small town, having a stationary population of only about 1600, but is of importance as being one of the stations on the overland line of route to India. The streets are unpaved, and houses are in general poorly built. The only respectable building in the place is a large and handsome hotel recently erected by the Pasha. The town is protected on three sides by a wall mounting a few cannon. It has a good quay, but only boats of not more than 60 tons can come up to the town, larger vessels having to anchor in the roadstead about two miles off. The country around Suez is a perfect desert, no fresh water nor any kind of verdure being to be seen, and hence water and all kinds of provisions have to be brought to it from a great distance.