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RESIDENCY AND MUSCAT POLITICAL AGENCY FOR 1882-83, 31

only increase of the population and general prosperity would enable it
safely to overstep.
To enable goods from tlio south to compete in the markets of the
north of Persia, better or shorter lines of communication would be indis­
pensable, That subject has been discussed so exhaustively during the
past few years that it is unnecessary to touch on it,

E. C. ROSS, Lieut.-Colonel,
Resident, Persian Gul/,\