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  • [Footnote: Anatolian system into Mesopotamia, where the Tigris and Euphrates

provided natural and logical avenues of trade for the Valley of the Two Rivers. In Mesopotamia, he maintained, what was needed was a development of the river traffic, not the construction of railways. Cf. H. F. B. Lynch, "The Bagdad Railway," Fortnightly Review, March 1, 1911, pp. 384-386.]*