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'Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.' [63] (96/782)
The record is made up of 1 volume (673 pages). It was created in 1874. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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ii,] FROM MEDITERRANEAN TO
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. 63
whole line of Indo-European comnumieation. For, to
join a port on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean
with the French system at Marseilles or the Italian
system at Brindisi, would have presented no special
difficulty to submarine telegraphy; and a successfully
working Persian (Jult cable has long since become an
established fact. 1 hat tins, if not the truest direct route
to India, is nearer the mark than any which has been
hitherto before the public, whether for telegraph or
iailu a}, cannot even now be doubted by any unpre
judiced person who has taken the trouble to master the
subject in detail; and that it will be found so, before the
speculation and enterprise of the present age shall have
given place to new characteristics of progressive civiliza
tion, there is ample ground for belief. The question for
decision seems to be whether or no the mouth of the
Orontes is the fittest starting-point for rail and wire
intended to connect the Mediterranean with the Persian
Gulf? And here we may well pause to reflect whether
too little attention has not in this respect been bestowed
on the Syrian ports below Seleucia, on the Palmyra
desert, and on the desert post-track between Damascus
and Baghdad ?
Hie notion of an Indian telegraph through Asiatic
I urkey had, at this time, been just interpreted, more or
less comprehensively, to the East India Company by Dr.
0 Shaughnessy, Superintendent of Indian Telegraphs. 1
Tins officer, arguing in favour of a direct line of tele
graph to connect Karachi with Constantinople, proposed
to lay a cable from the former place to Korna, to con
tinue thence subaqueous communication to Baghdad
1 " Correspondence respecting the Establishment of Telegraphic Commnni-
cations in the Mediterranean and with India," pages 118 to 124,
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Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.
Author: Colonel Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, CB, KCSI. Late Chief Commissioner Indo-European Telegraph; British Commissioner for settlement of the Perso-Baluch Frontier (1870-71) and Arbitrator in the Perso-Afghan boundary question (1872-73).
Publication details: London. Macmillan and Co., 1874. R Clay, Sons and Taylor, printers, Bread Streat Hill.
Physical Description: xiv, [2], 673, [3]p., [8] leaves of plates (2 folded): ii, maps, portrait; 23cm (8º).
Ownership: With stamps of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Library and embossed stamp of the "Secretary of State for India Library". Marginal ms. annotations in a contemporary hand in ink on pages 101, 194, 196, 264 and 527.
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- 1 volume (673 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references, along with a list of illustrations giving titles and page references. There is also an index which begins on page 661.
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Dimensions: 232mm x 156mm
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- V 21450
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- 'Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:14, 14a:14b, 15:18, 1:8, 8a:8b, 9:144, 144a:144b, 145:186, 186a:186b, 187:324, 324a:324b, 325:516, 516a:516b, 517:648, 648a:648b, 649:676, 1:60, iii-r:iii-v, back-i
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- Goldsmid, Sir Frederic John
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