 The pasha ordered the new company to replace the old locks with newer, bigger gates and to provide for the cleansing and upkeep of the canal.In the French "Carte Topographique de l'Egypte", investigated while the canal was built, and published in 1818, the canal is called Canal of Alexandria (الإسكندرية ﺧﻠﻴﺞ — Khalīg al-Iskandariyya).In that map the bifurcation from the Nile is 20 upstream of the modern bifurcation and yet there are no totally straight sections.