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Title: Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: MacKenzie, G. Muir (Georgina Muir), d. 1874 Irby, A. P. (Adelina Paulina), 1833-1911
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Publisher: London : A. Strahan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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theSerbian frontier) a single road more than barely carossable.^ A riding-post does the journey in138 hours. Were this line traversed by railroad, it would becomeour shortest way to Alexandria, and considerably abridgeour postal distance from the East. Between Alexan-dria and Trieste there are 1,200 geographical miles,between Alexandria and Salonica only 670. Comparedwith the Marseilles route it has been calculated that,via Salonica, the Indian mail would take the same timeto get from Alexandria to London, that it now takes(by at least every second steamer) to get from Alex-andria to Marseilles. The projected railway would becarried along the plains and valleys of the rivers Mo-rava and Vardar (Axius). The route, as it has beentraced, crosses no important elevations, and its onlyengineering obstacles consist in some narrow defiles.The proportion of difficult parts to easy, has been esti-mated as 1 to 9^, and the cost of the hue (in Aus-trian money) as nearer 20,000,000 than 30,000,000
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CHAP. III.) BULGARIA VIEWED FROM SALONICA. 23 of guilders, i. e., nearer 2,000,000/. than 3,000,000/.sterling. Seeing then that at no distant period the interests ofBulgaria may be interwoven with those of British com-merce ; seeing that at this moment it forms part of anempire which England has pledged herself to defend,some persons may care to read a few notes on itsinhabitants and history; those who care not, can passover the next pages. By Bulgaria we understand, not that insignificantportion of the same termed the Turkish province ofBulgaria, but the whole tract of country peopled byBulgarians. The population, usually given as fourmillions, is estimated by the people themselves as fromfive to six millions,—forming the Eastern division ofthe South-Slavonic race. The Bulgarians are dis-tinguished in all essentials from their neighbours.— the Greek, the Eouman, and the Turk — theydiffer in a few points of character from their ownWestern kindred, the Croato-Serbs. The chief oft

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