'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎58] (223/524)

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58 REMARKS ON THE TRIBES, & c .
81. The greatest consumers in Persia, area for area, are to be f 0lln( |
within an obtuse angled triangle, of which a line drawn from Tabreez
on the West, along the Southern shore of the Caspian to Meshed on
the East, would form the base ; and of which lines drawn from Meshed
and Tahreez respectively to Ispahan, would form the other two sides
Now trade must reach these consumers along one or more of the follow
ing routes :—
1 st»—Via Turkish Armenia from Trebizond to Tahreez.
2nd.—Via the Russian Caucasian Provinces from Poti to Tabreez
3rd .—From the line of the Volga across the Caspian to Resht or
Asterabad.
4th .—From Kurrachee via the Candahar line to Furrah, and
thence either through Herat to Meshed, or through Ghayn to the
Nishapoor portion of the Teheran road.
5M.—From Bunder Abbass through Yezd or Kerman.
6th .—From Bushire via Shiraz, and thence through Ispahan
or Yezd,
From some port on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. other than Bushire
and Bunder Abbass; or
8th.—Along some line between the head of the Gulf and Baghdad,
and thence continuing either into the plateau of Persia via Kerman-
shah, Shuster, or else keeping Northward through the Kurds.
82. But trade coming by the first route has to meet the Turkish
Custom Houses; to traverse 500 miles of mountainous country, some
times impassable from snow, and oftener unsafe from plunderers, until
it reach Tabreez. It has then to meet the Persian Customs, and if
sent on to Teheran to make another land journey of 700 miles, or if
to Ispahan of 800 or more. If finally if go on to Meshed, it has a
further land route of 800 miles along a frontier road scant of water and
supplies, and broken in upon by the Turcomans of the Attruk and
Goorgan.
8d. If trade come Georgia, it has the Russian duties to pay
many difficulties of carriage from Poti to Khoi; then to meet the Pei
sian Customs at labreez ; and so on, as above detailed. If it debouch
on the Caspian at Lenkaran, it lias re-shipment, re-landing, and th
tropical unloaded provinces of Ghelan or Mazanderan to travers