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STATUTE MILES 



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A SKETCH MAP OE ARAP.IA, SHOWING THE GEOGRAPHICAL RELATION OP THE NEW 

 KINGDOM OE IIEJAZ TO SYRIA, MESOPOTAMIA, AND ARMENIA 



Work of construction on the two most famous railways in the Near East — the Damascus 

 to Mecca Pilgrims' line and the Berlin to Bagdad steel highway — was interrupted by the 

 World War. Since the armistice operations have been resumed on the missing link of the 

 latter, between Nisibin and Samarra, and the Pilgrims' line is now being pushed southward 

 from Medina (see also "The Land of the Stalking Death," page 393, and "Syria, the Land 

 Link of History's Chain," page 437). 



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