"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٣‎٨‎٤] (١٧٨٢/١٥٣٩)

Further
proceedings,
1384
An attempt to delimit the frontier in the district of Zohab between
Baghdad and Kirmanshah, where a preliminary survey had already been
made by Major Rawlinson, the British Political Agent at Baghdad, and
Commander Felix Jones of the Indian Navy in 1844-, led to an leute
difference between Dervish Pasha and his colleagues; and at Mandali, on
the 19th January 1852, acting professedly under instructions from his
Government, he demanded the restoration of what he affected to consider
the status (iuo at Muhammareh and in Zohab,—including in the case of
Muhammareh the hauling down of the Persian flag there, the dismissal
of Ilaji Jabir, etc.,—and announced that in default of compliance he
would no longer act with the rest of the Commission. On his persisting
in this determination the other Commissioners decided to march south-
waids along the border and make a survey of the frontier region from
Mandali to Hawizeh,—a resolve which they did not fail to carry out in
spite of the strenuous opposition of Dervish Pasha, who himself retired
to Baghdad.
An attempt was then made at Constantinople to obtain the substitu
tion of arbitration by Britain and llussia for their mediation, but it failed
owing to the non-acceptance of the proposal by the Porte; and the task
o the mediating Commissioners was confined, after the withdrawal of
the Turkish representative, to survey operations and the collection of
useful information. By the end of April 1852, about which time
Lieutenant Jackson, I.N., was attached to the British Co mm ission,
the \vhole frontiei had been mapped from the northern extremity of
Zohab to the Persian Gulf; and in May the Turkish Commissioner
ejoined his colleagues, but only to hamper their work by secret
intrigues tvith Persian tribes during the completion of the survey
northwards to Mount Ararat.
Eaily in 1853 Colonel Williams proceeded to England on leave; and
the outbreak of the Crimean War shortly afterwards put an end, for the
time being, to co-operation between Britain and Russia in the Turko-
Persian frontier question. In November 1857 the seat of the British
ommission was transferred from Constantinople to St. Petersburg,
ere work on the maps of the frontier continued for some time
longer.
It had been the intention of Colonel Williams to draw up a compre
hensive report embodying the views of himself and his Russian colleague
m regard to the position of the frontier at every point; but, by an
unfortunate accident, his materials were lost while in transit to
° 0 T ' ! eport would have explained the status quo of tribal
occupation as existing in 1849-52, which is not now discoverable.