Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-04-02
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antediluvian cities, Cyclopaan remains
gigantic sculptures lysaerious exesya-
non biluuinous lakes, and mosaic wells;
and We may reasonably pause for a few
lmoments before we turn our iheodoiites
upon tracts which the most enlerprising
traveller have not yet perfectly, expiOred.g'
II We have now two routes. open tosus,
1 We may either lake the Great Desert Of
! Kirman, and the wilds Of Western Aft.
ghanistaD, driving right through the Soly
man range OF mountains, and striking our .
Indian territories pretty high up in the.
Punjaub; or we may skirt The south-wes-t
teri coast of Persia, run, exacdy through
The centre of Beloochistan, and debouch
directly upon the old capital of the A
meers Of Scinde. Our surveys, Traffic, cal
culations, &C., are here manly confined
TO certain statistics respecting The capaci-
ties of loaded camels, and the tracts OF Pc
riodlcal caravans /; but the project before
us prudenlIv decides in favor Ot'ihe later
mentioned and the line accordingly pas
sing right through the ruins oi PersepoEs,
cuts the Beluochee frontier al lis middle
point and then, turning little south
ward, skirts the whole length of the sea
coast under the hills. and st length cross
es the Indus little below Meeanee. The
distance ,trarersed in the two stages IS a
bout $50 miles in Persia, and, as nearly
as possible, the same in BeloochIstan.--5
Perhaps, at this point, il may be advisa-
ble TO mention, for general information,
that BeIoochistan is n country bounded
on the north by Affghanistan, on the west
and east bv Persia and Scinde, and on
the south by the Arabian sea, and dtenan-
ted bv an indefnabe race, living under no
describaLle Government. II, after this
we cannot snap our fingers at The Yank-.
ees, it will, as they express II, ,"bsa
pity" 5e a.a .al
Yet the total estimated cost Of this mi
raculous design is only 9l3,05o' 'OOO-ar
sum which might, indeed. have appeared
to Adam Smith, but which
is mere trAe according TO present no.
lions, and which, in fact scarcely exceeds
what has been actually spent in two do
mestc railways. The total annual inter,
est on the capital is under R2,0OO, 600,
and the portion which, according TO tho
terms of the project would have to be de-
lrayed by the Government" of Beloo.
chistan is only e275,oOO. We should
like, however, to hear Sir Charles Ma
piers opinion upon the amenabilty Of this
interesting population to proper ins truc-
ton upon The points of International inter
course, free trade, Cabinet loans, and fun.
ded debt nor can we persuade ourselves
that the apparition 0: the projected cause
way would be unaccompanied with GER
tain degree of abrnptness in some OF tho
districts ofPersia and Asia Minor En-
gineering difficulties" we are well aware,
have now no place in projectors vocabu-
larry, nor is it fitthey should have; but there
are other not unimportant considerations
in the case of scheme like this. How
ever, we have at last fairly beaten the A.
merirans in comprehensive surveys and
audacous speculation. and we have abun.
dant reasons for believing that the scheme
which we may have here detailed has &C.
tually been considered for years, has been
with the aid Of all accessible in
formation, and has been devised with no
other end than that Of promoting great
national good.