Euphrates Valley Route to India: In Connection with the Central Asian and Egyptian QuestionsW. H. Allen & Company, 1882 - 95 pages |
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advance advantages afford Aleppo Alexandretta alternative Bagdad bank Bombay break British capital carried Caspian Central Asia Chairman Chesney commerce Committee communication Company completion connect considered construction cost direct distance East Eastern Egypt Empire engineering England English established Euphrates route Euphrates Valley Railway Europe evidence existing extended favour force frontier gauge give Government hand head Herat House importance Indus interest Kurrachee land late letter Lord mails material means Mediterranean ment miles military navigation necessary object official once opinion pass Persian Gulf political port possessions present proposed Punjaub question recent reference regard render river route to India Russia Scinde secure Sir William steam steamers stopped Suez Canal taken telegraph Tigris tion trade traffic troops Turkish Government undertaking views W. H. ALLEN W. P. Andrew whole
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Page 60 - And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. And they shall say : — " This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden ; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
Page 87 - Committee are of opinion that the two routes by the Red Sea and by the Persian Gulf, might be maintained and used simultaneously ; that at certain seasons and for certain purposes the advantage would lie with the one, and at other seasons and for other purposes it would lie with the other ; that it may fairly be expected that in process of time traffic enough for the support of both would develops itself, but that this result must not be expected too soon...
Page 82 - England at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum and 1 per cent, for a sinking fund. 2. The proceeds of such loan, when raised, to be deposited in the Bank of England in the names of the...
Page 33 - Cereals can be grown there so cheaply that no country the same distance from England— say, for instance, Russia — could compete with it at all. And, if Great Britain finds it necessary to rely more on the importation of foreign corn, where could a better field be found than the fertile plains of Mesopotamia, the cradle of mankind, which has all the advantages of climate, soil, sun and water in its favor.
Page 80 - if the enterprise were to be regarded simply as one affecting " British interests, it would be the wisest course to adopt the shortest " and most direct line not open to very obvious objections, and that " one of the two routes by the way of the Euphrates should be pre
Page 75 - Orders of The House, examined the matters to them referred; and have agreed to the following REPORT...
Page 24 - Greeks discovered a new channel, by which the productions of India might be conveyed to Constantinople. They were carried up the Indus, as far as that great...
Page 48 - How methodically and steadily, if slowly, the task enjoined upon his successors by Peter the Great has been pursued, let history attest. The old southern boundary of Russia in Central Asia extended from the Ural, north of the Caspian, by Orenburg and Orsk, to the old Mongolian city of Semipolatinsk, and was guarded by a cordon of Cossack outposts. In 1716 Peter the Great sent a force, commanded by Prince Bekovich, to take possession of part of the eastern shore of the Caspian. Three forts were then...
Page 37 - Punjab; and the Euphrates and Indus lines being connected by means of steamers, we should be enabled to threaten the flank and rear of any force advancing through Persia towards India. So that...
Page 26 - ... to distant lands ; and of competing with her in the peaceful rivalry of commerce. On every ground, therefore, the proposed Euphrates Valley Railway is an undertaking eminently deserving our attention and the support and encouragement of our Government. The countries which our future highway to India will traverse have been, from remote antiquity, the most interesting in the world. On the once fertile plains, watered by the Euphrates and Tigris, the greatest and most glorious nations of antiquity...