Nearer East / [D.G. Hogarth].

  • David George Hogarth
Date:
1902
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Credit: Nearer East / [D.G. Hogarth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the great border barriers ready cut ; and by such service to communication, the larger Anatolian rivers may redeem in the future their uselessness for navigation. Rails have actually been laid up the valleys of the Porsuk, the Gediz, and the Menderes ; and the gorge of the Kizil river (Halys) P ig. 7.—Western Asia Minor. has been surveyed by engineers in quest of a railway route up to and over the Plateau. Seen in bird’s-eye view from the west, the Anatolian Peninsula would present in the foreground a series of small deltaic plains, divided one from another by bold and shaggy mountain masses whose roots advance far into the sea (Fig. 7). The plains are deep, marshy, and
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