'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. (Edited by the Honorary Secretary.) Volume XVIII.' [‎10] (145/268)

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Aet. II.—REPORT on an OVERLAM D JOURNEY p E oj f
BAGDAD to CONSTANTINOPLE, through Turkish
Arabia and Asia Minor.— By Lieut. Col. F. J. Goldsmid,
Contributed by Government.
Read before the Society, October I9th, 1865.
Memorandum on the march from
Bagdad to Izmid, with accompanying
letter to Lieut.-Colonel P. Stewart,
C.B.
With reference to former correspondence in the early part of the
present year, I have now the honour
to submit to the Right Honourable
the Governor of Bombay in Council
the papers specified in the margin,
prepared on arrival at this capital
last August. The overland journey through Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. and Asia
Minor to which they refer was undertaken, it will be remembered, in
accordance with the proposition of Colonels Kemball and Stewart, c.b,,
under the full approval of the Bombay Government, and with the
express sanction of the Sublime Porte, communicated by H. B. M.’s
Ambassador at the Ottoman Court.
2. I left Bagdad, in company with Mr. Kersting, a gentleman
connected with the Anglo-Indian Telegraph, and Ahmed Effendi,
an Egyptian engineer specially deputed by H. E. Namik Pacha, on
the 19th May last, and reached Angureh, in Asia Minor, on the 30th
July. The distance, about 1,054 miles, was accomplished in 73 days,
the average of marches, exclusive of halts being 18 miles, and inclusive
of them 14| miles per diem. From Angureh to Izmid, a further
distance of 210 miles, I posted in about 3^- days, and from Izmid the
Gulf Steamer conveyed mein eight hours to Constantinople.
3. Adopting to some extent the sections of my printed Report on
the Mekran Mission of the 22nd February 1862, I would make the
present subject divisible as follows :—
I. The loute, with special reference to Telegraph purposes.
II. The natural products of the soil, and means of obtaining water
and supplies-
HI* inhabitants, with some account of the larger towns, and
matters of general or political interest.