... large scale, and silk is one of the must important products of the kingdom. An enormous trade might be done had the Persian Government taken the trouble toprocure healthy grain from abroad, and stamped out the silkworm disease, which of late years hasp ...

... Government supplied to the Turkish Government differed to those supplied to the Persian Government. The former had wooden telegraph poles, the latter iron ones. The Persian Government, in their jealous hatred of the Turks, feared that if wooden poles were erected ...