Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 143
Orders having been at length issued by government during the last year to survey the line of country in Lower Birmah, or Pegu, as far as our own frontier, in the direction of the Chinese province of Yn - nan, with a view to the establishment of a line of route between our Indian possessions and China, General Sir Arthur Cotton, r.e., made a most important communication to the Royal Geographical Society, in which he justly expressed his surprise that so grave a question as internal communication between India and China should be treated in such an imperfect way. No attempt, the distinguished officer in question said, had been made to consider the real point, which was, what would be the best line for such communication? He conceived the question of throwing open all India, with its population of two hundred millions, to all China, with its four hundred millions of people, was of such great importance that it required a much more serious consideration than had yet been given to it.
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