Memoir on the Euphrates Valley Route to India: With Official Correspondence and MapsW. H. Allen & Company, 1857 - 267 من الصفحات |
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advantages Aleppo Alexandretta ancient Antioch Arabia Arabs Asia Minor Babylon Babylonia Bagdad banks Bay of Antioch boats Bombay British Bussorah Calcutta canal capital Captain carried Caspian Caspian Sea Chairman Chesney civilisation coast commerce communication Constantinople construction cotton cultivated difficulties Directors distance East India Company Egypt England English enterprise established Euphrates and Tigris Euphrates Valley Railway Europe European and Indian expedition exports facilities favourable feet France harbour Honourable importance Indian Junction Telegraph Indian railways Indus interest Ja'ber Castle John Macneill Kurrachee land means Mediterranean Mesopotamia miles nations navigation opening Orontes Ottoman Empire pass Persian Gulf plains population port of Seleucia present proposed prosperity Punjaub railroad Red Sea route to India Russia Scinde Railway Seleucia ships Sir John Macneill steamers Sublime Porte Suédiah Suez Syria thence Tigris tion tons town trade traffic traveller tribes Trieste Turkey Turkish Government Valley Railway Company W. P. ANDREW