The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-16 00:00:00

THE PROJECTED EUPHRATES VALLEY

TELEGRAPH.

The following letter Ins been addressed to Mr.
Andrew, the chairman of the European and Indies Jute-
non Telegraph Cooney, by Mr. William Ai eworth
" To W. P. Andrew, Esq., Chairmen of the European sad
Indian Junin Telegraph Company.
" Deer Ilire—l base much pleasure in transmitting to
you my ideas upon the subject of telegraphic communce-
tios from ninon to the Persian Gull, along the Valley of
the Euphrates.
"In ding so I mist pulse that my aeonaintene* with
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is throughout comparatively level, easy for scene, with
mat of the material of labour at hind. The utmost els-
vane of the line of watershed between the hiediterranou
and the Euphrates along the line ol levels nand by the
°Seen under the essmand of Gonad Chesney, was 1,760
feet, with a very gentle seam ; and the height of the
bed of the Euphrates at the termination of the same line of
levels was 650 feet.
" The rise of ground ea the direct line to Aleppo is still
less. There Is a tract of hard limestone to cross an the lies
to Aleppo, bat there are no mountaies, rivers of any =get.
ten, Millie, Or any ether obstacles that axe worthy ef
make to be areneme.
It is alum menu to add that once the valley of the
Euphrates naked, there is an almost continuos' and sain-
Unpaid penal damn to the Persian Golf. The soft
end friable pulps eppeesb the river at but few point', and
with the easeplea of the gunk ridge at Delon*, sad •
patch Obeid Ileallitelege to the left bank at Amish, never
attain an eltaillen snob 'needles 100 feet, and the Waite
leave a river wren wide enough for several lines of
railway.
4 4 the sane circumstances which give such ur-
esesilliMirtile the prolooptioa of • line of rellway slug
the valley of the Eephr.tes, naturally also apply them-
selves to the proloolatioa of a line of telegraphie anus-
nientioe. The difinalties which present themselves ate
solely 'sob as may be anticipated from the anni-barberees
onditios of the people inhabitiog the autry, and these 1..
adieu to be very 'amorally exaggerated.
Ablest all possible eandente would be anticipated wore
proper precautionary ammo adopted.
" The primutieury ambeeres 1 allude to would be, first,
the support of the Otesmam government and of the keel
authorities; and,, sees. the austenence of the Arab
sheikhs. which man be eflWfg by a vary ',dila' 'abafte
to be paid 66 ieissalke wine remained intact, and to he
witlanema ethos it was injured.
" Tble mega reespest kind of surreillanc* that
amid be eillalamil la the geteetries in elution.
mfg MOW be farther essential to explain to the Arab
Alan the Mare of the objects pruned.
" They wadi" impale the matter again in their own way
M their fellowese. sad it le a peat mistake to suppose that
the Arabs wont not be open to such an explain= (al-
, *ugh net expected to uderstaad the aeons operawai any
toes. than • Zurepeur t), sad that they would net be
killasseed by the me obligations imposed upon them.
The innate object of such rispleaatioe woad be to
men peedoelerly do away with all ampielone or seared-
Wu Weis. whisk mien othaewise be soneated with the
la yisjg dews of a line of telegraphic oommunivativa.
The simple stateareat that the entitle telegraph was
used to coney the messages of the Sultan, would protect it
from all auldents.
"One the valley of the Euphrates attained, the popula-
tion of Its nog tasks are for tr • most part postern and
" Thee unto is 'rottenly exposed to the Ina& of the
Bennie Arabs, but eves then 1 do not believe the Arab to
be mutely destructive.
" The ezistione of a many, and of such extensive, ro-
mans of Odes times scattered over their country attest to the
contr.
"Ten are medieval castles fa the Valley of the ne-
phrites claimed_ by me one, sad isatinnated. yet whisk are
is part inheNnida to the preseat day. Neste Kaki le
• remarkable lunar of this kind. Inscription on dry
mad hen exited ueselebed from the days of the caliphs.
The habits of the Arabs load them to disdain sue fee
baking potpies% edam of time are much lea in-
jured swag them them they would be elsewhere. In what
ether euntry would • Pelmyra be found abandoned to the
glee 001111, yet duet eneenthed
"The Espana' expedition left tweet three gnus at Port
William la 111/3. The annals upend them so far that
Baas Puke used them in the defence of Btrijilt in 1839.
" I have found a small collection of Roman eons in Arab
tombs at Bails. The people had found them, they did not
tau what to do with them, yet they did not wastefully
throw them away. They had belonged to some &Pa, lad
rates ; they mould MANN SW them. thee, to their deed. Ex-
empts' of this kind might be almost isfinitely
" In ease the system of subterfuges wires is &doped it
would require the same preantiosary measures to be taken
as in the au of a line epos poets, but it is evident that the
wine would be far lees exposed to accidents.
" A Nee from Selescia, by Aleppo so Belie, would used
Itself by the Veiny of the Euphrates with the projected
railway at laber Cutler, at Aleppo, at Selena, sad, If
deemed advisable, at Ankch, so Si to as ewer all the pus
roses of the railway sad for the remainder of the Menage
dug the Veiny silks Rephrase and Tigris, it will pai-
trebly fellow the some ashy
" • Wed gins of oaroyfoog an electric telegraph prune
itself akar" this volley if the rivers Rephrases and Tigris
&Haut nu these Ware alluded to, and that is slug the
bed of Oa due.
" The advantage asked is datums by saris, the bonds of
the river, sad which would amount to probably about
I.6th of the whose Massa, poist to a lice of telegraph ea
poets or to • subternitese sable a bolas preferable to •
animas tae. The soil of the valley of the Euphrates is
peculiarly adapted for the latter system, being for the most
partrivet alluvium, sad lam net so, reasepaied of set sad
friable rook formation (marls, uperus, and red undresses)
sully out, or through whin tassels could be bored win
ty.
"There a soiling, indeed, in the Euphrates valley that
will compare for • moment with India or ether anictrise
through which electric telegraphs hen btu carried, de-
nudes' or todepeedent, of railways. Nature inis partitively
left there • great open pp, with almost anexampied Uni-
ties for all sash undo raking% whether railway ow
telegraph. Prom the parallel of Aleppo there us se glue.
mantes, or narrow rocky. pews whatsoever.
Rooks abut epos the river at a few perste, but wily so as to
leave • mingle for easy lines of railway or electric tele.
SesPb-
"lt is to be presumed that the telegrephie cable, upon
ruling the alluvial plains of Babylon., • little above
Polejels„ will be ended across that plan to Seeded. fa
sobaquies of the impertana of that place as • com-
ma:id empties.
" For this brief distaste no more difialties would pre.
"set themselves than eleewheee to • line on poets or to a
subterranean sable.
" Bat whether the valley of the Euphrates is famed
south of lifelujeb, or that of the Tigris soeth of Buda, it
might be advisable to carry the cable tau* forward along
Z 614 of either river Os mount of the sentence of nun-
nub of mash, which would neeesidur e a line of posts
th asallanameas table being earned at ands point' at •
&tease away hem the beaks.
" In the latter case the Tigris pouts some slight ad-
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kw, or nose, should act be adopted foe the whole length
If the Use projected.-1 have the boson to be, he., he.,
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