Front matter
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In course of preparation, the Fow*th Edition of
INDIAN RAILWAYS,
Contents
Expected improvements from the introduction of steam in the East. — Political importance of connecting by railway Mediterranean and Persian Gulf. — Navigation of Euphrates. — Mr. John Laird. — Mr. Peacock's evidence. — Euphrates. — Tigris. — Herodotus. — Gibbon. — Dio. — Trajan. — Ammianus Marcellinus. — English merchants in time of Queen Ehza* beth. — Russia might follow Trajan and Julian. — Oxus and Caspian. — Steam on Euphrates would counteract designs of Russia. — Bagdad. — Trade of Persian Gulf with India three to one with that of Red Sea. — Major-General Chesney's evidence. — Four routes to East. — El Kaim on Euphrates. — Arabs at Anna. — A raft. — Memorandum by Mr. Cartwright, Consul- General. — Boats at Hitt. — Felujah. — Bagdad. — Bussorah. — Bushire. — Euphrates navigable ; breadth of. — Korna. — Lemlun marshes. ■ — Mesopotamia. — El Oos. — Whirlpool of Elias. — Anna. — GiaberandMalatia. — Sultan's guns go by river to Bagdad. — Bir, Armenia andBabylon. — Herodotus. — Mercantile travellers : Rauwolf,Balbi, JohnJSTewberrie, Ralph Pitch, Sir Anthony Shirley, John Cartwright. — Dimensions of parabolio steam-boat. — Tigris.-— Mosul to Bagdad. — Euphrates is easiest route for Russia to threaten India by. — Achaltziek. — Murad-Soo. — Armenia and Kars. — Bussorah, Cape Jask, and the Indus. — Napoleon, Trajan, and Julian. — Turkey and Persia. — Euphrates. — Indus. — Alexander and Caliph Mohammed Bin Kassim. — Russia on Euphrates, and our troops on Indus. — Rapid communication of minor importance to paramount one of barrier against Russia. — Euphrates adapted to steam navigation. — Cleaveland. — Charlewoocl. — Fitjzames. — Estcourt. — Ainsworth.— Campbell. — Results of exploration of Euphrates. — Tigris, Bamisheer and Karoon, Dizful, and Hie. — East India Company and navigation of rivers of Mesopotamia. — Captain Lynch and Lieut.
C. D. Campbell. — Steamers Nitocris and Mmrocl. — Mehemet AH. — Lieut. Selby. — Susiana. — The course of Euloeus Choaspes, &c. — Captain C. D. Campbell. — Captain Charlewood. — Breathing time. — Neutralization of Caspian. — Frontiers of Russia in Central Asia ? — Sir J. Mc Donald and Eldred Pottinger's routes to India. — Harlan's march. — Burnes, Abbot, Mouravieff, Orloff, &c. — Mc Niel, Chesney, &c. — Dost Mahomed, Brunow, and Hobhouse. — The Oxus and. Afghanistan. — Euxine and Caspian. —Alexander Mcolaievitsch, his pomp and policy. — Effect of late war. — Ottoman Empire. — Asiatic Turkey and Persia.— Tinis, the road to Herat and Teheran. — Central Asia and Caspian Sea. — France and Austria. — Abdul Medjid and Czar Alexander. — Indus and Terek. — Petermann's Siberia. — Expedition for surveying and sounding Caspian. — Grand Duke Constantine. — Russian trade with Central Asia, &c. — Sir Justin Sheil on a position at Candahar. — Effect of Railways in India. — Cossack and Hindostanee horseman. — Red Sea route. — Euphrates route, a political necessity. — Shortest to Australia. — Empress Elizabeth Railroad. — Railway to Constantinople via Paris, "Vienna and Belgrade. — Salonica. — Colonization in Hungary. — Prince Metternich— England to India by different
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