. The science of railways . A market A means of travel among the favored few in Morocco. PRIMITIVE CARRIAGE IN PERSIA. The name Persia conjures up many mem-ories to the lover of ancient history. It recallsCyrus the Great and his subjugation of Media,Babylon and Susa and the downfall of Croesus,Xerxes invasion of Greece, the Retreat of theTen Thousand, and, finally, the conquest of thePersian Empire and the overthrov^ of the GreatKing by Alexander. The Persia of our day is much larger than thediminutive kingdom out of which Cyrus firstmarched his army. But the people are not thepeople o
. The science of railways . A market A means of travel among the favored few in Morocco. PRIMITIVE CARRIAGE IN PERSIA. The name Persia conjures up many mem-ories to the lover of ancient history. It recallsCyrus the Great and his subjugation of Media,Babylon and Susa and the downfall of Croesus,Xerxes invasion of Greece, the Retreat of theTen Thousand, and, finally, the conquest of thePersian Empire and the overthrov^ of the GreatKing by Alexander. The Persia of our day is much larger than thediminutive kingdom out of which Cyrus firstmarched his army. But the people are not thepeople of Cyrus; they lack their enterprise,physique and homogeneity. Persia has a mixedpopulation, such as we might expect to find in acountry that has been a battlefield for thousandsof years and the focus of many invasions andcounter-invasions. Its methods of carriage con-form to physical and social conditions and differlittle from what they were in the time of Cyrus,twenty-four hundred years ago. While the dis-position of the government is, on
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