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14 H. STANLEY JEVON$ to affect India, we may usefully recognize others which are sare to be constructed some-day. Moscow will probably first be connected with India by a line from Baku to Bushire joining up with the Karachi-Bagdad line, but a direct route from Moscow to I),elh? through Kabul and Peshawar, and on by branches to Calcutta and China will some-day be required. I? will also be necessary to link up Siberia, with its valuable arctic and tem- perate productl, with India. It ?nay. safely be pre- dicted that nowhere in the world is a greater ?orth- and.south trade possible. The physical obstacles to be overcome are enormous; nevertheless the building of a railway from the neighbourhood of Rawal Pindi northwards through or near Khogend to Omsk on the Trans-Siberian line must be regarded as a future necessity. Another north and south line will be needed to connect 'Bengal with Central Siberia and Northern China. Presumably it will pass through the Chamba Valley and Lhassa with a.n easterly trend, and then one branch will bend northwards to Lake Baikal and the other continue to Peking. Yet another trans-continental route will run from Rangoon through on northwards to connect line and the whole Chinese with the systen? of (by another from Calcutta though Dacca and Rangoon to Singapore. A short voyage thence .to Port Darwin gives an almost complete overland route from London to Australia. of through routes ports. The Mandalay and last mentioned railways, and train ferry) It is on made to Rangoon. have been these that the railway systems converge; and we may take it that these ports have already grown to such i?nportance, and tha? they fulfil the above named conditions ? to are Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Colombo, Madras and The second class those determined by consists of pre-eminent ports