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Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Karachi in a week. That this is something morethan hypothesis is rendered clear by the following statement, jjreparedby my friend, Mi. Paul Lessar, which assumes the moderate speedsof thirty-two miles an hour on the European, and twenty-eight onthe Asiatic lines :— London, Calais, Berlin, Alexandrovo, .Custom Examination at Alexandrovo, .Alexandrovo, Warsaw, Gomel, Merefa,rovsk, Baku, ....Baku to Krasnovodsk (sea),Krasnovodsk, Merv, Kushk,Kushk, Chaman,....Chaman, Sukkur, Karachi, Total, . The cost of the journey would certainly not exceed that of a saloonpassage to Karachi or Bombay by a first-class line of steamers. Therail-fare, if pitched at the level maintained on the trains de luxe whichhave rendered continental travel so easy, would not exceed £36, andthe cost of food at £1 per diem would bring the total to £43. Anopportunity would be given the Anglo-Indian traveller, the tourist flying Miles. Hours. 917 281 Rostov, Pet 1968 63 198 15 . 714 30 438 18 481 m • . 4716 174^
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468 SCOTTISH OKOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. from the rigours of a northern winter, of visiting realms which havehitherto been seen by few indeed of their race. The bazars of Bokhara,redolent of the unadulterated East, Samarkand, styled by Schuyler apiece of another world, are no bad substitutes for the suffocating heatof the Red Sea, the dulness long drawn out of a prolonged voyage. Now, a few words as to the political and economic features of thisgreat project. The noisy but dwindling band of Russophobes will pro-bably oppose on the score that it Avould be unwise to place our com-munication with India at the mercy of a Power which they are pleasedto consider hostile. If there were any force in this argument we ought,ijjso facto, to abandon the present mail route by way of Brindisi andMarseilles, because France maj at any moment fly at our throats. Weshould still have our sea communication intact—a second string to ourbow should the fates bring us into collision with Russia. But the dangero

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