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Letter to W. P. Andrew, Esq., on the Importance of the Euphratts Route. By Captain W. B. Selby. (W. H. Allen and Co ) —A very succinct and clear pamphlet, setting out the superiority of the route to India through the Euphrates Valley over that by the Red Sea, A rail- way constructed from the Mediterranean to Bussorah would reduce the distance between India and England to eighteen days, and the writer contends with good reason that such a railway could bo easily 'made. The physical difficulties are slight, and the country through which- it would pass is controlled either by Turks, who are our allies, or by 'Bedouins, whose chiefs would willingly become our pensioners. Once finished this line, besides binding us to India end giving us a second communication in the event of a temporary loss of tho control of the Red Sea, would give us a decisive voice in the destiny of Turkey, enabling India to throw 50,000 men without long notice on any menaced portion of Asia Minor, and making of India in fact a Mediterranean power. The pamphlet is worth reading by all interested in the question.
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