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equals 44 "09 inches, A farsakh theoretically = 6, 000 zar of 40 "95 inches = 3 '87 miles. Some calculate the farsakh at 6,000 zar of 44*09 inches = 4*17 miles. The measure of surface is jerib = l,000 to 1,066 square zar of 40*95 inches = 1,294 to 1,379 square yards.
Diplomatic Representatives.
1. Of Persia in Great Britain.
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. — Mirza Mehdi Khan Mushir el Mulk.
Councillor. — Mirza Abdul Ghaffar Khan. First Secretary. — Mohamad Ali Khan Ehtesham Homayoun. Third Secretary. — Mirza Gholam Ali Khan Ardelani. Consul-General. — H. S. Foster.
2. Of Great Britain in Persia.
Teheran: Envoy, Minister, and Consul- General. — Sir W. B. Townley, K.C.M.G. (1912).
Councillor. — C.Alban Young, M.V.O.
Secretaries. — W. Garnett and Sir Coleridge A. F. Kennard, Bart.
Military AttacM. — Captain William Fordham.
There are Consular representatives at Teheran, Tabriz (C), Resht, Bushire (C.G.), Bunder Abbas, Meshed (C.-G.), Ispahan (C.-G.), Sistan, Kerman, Muhamrah, Shiraz, Kermanshah, Hamadan (native agency), Yezd, Ahwaz, Turbat-i-Haidari, Snltanabad.
Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Persia
1. Official Publications.
Blue Books. — Aifairs of Persia, Decem'ber 1906, to November, 1908. Persia, No. 1, 1909.— Continuation of Persia, Ko. 1. Persia, No. 2, 1909.— Continuation of Persia, No. 2. Persia, No. 1, 1910.
Eastern Persia : an Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870-72. 2 vols. 1876.
Treaty Series, No. 10, 1903. This gives the Commercial Convention of May 27, 1903, The customs tariff is also given in the Board of Trade Journal (No. 325) for February 19, 1903, and in United States Consular Reports (No. 273) for June, 1903. Treaty series No. 34. Convention with Russia relatina' to Persia, Afghanistan, and Thibet, 1907.
Foreign Office Reports. [On the trade of Bushire, Lingah, Bunder Abbas, Mohammerah and other ports in the Persian Gulf. On Kermanshah. On the trade of Resht, and of Meshed.] Annual Series. London.
2. Non-Official Publications.
Adams (Isaac), Persia by a Persian. London, 1906.
Bassett{Ja.iaes), Persia, the Land of the Imams. London, 1886.
Benjamin (S. G. W.), Persia and the Persians. London, 1887.— Persia. [In Story of the Nations Series.] 3d. ed. London, 1888.
Browne (E. G.), A. year amongst the Persians. London, 1893.
Browne {^. G.), The Revolution in Persia. London, 1910.
Chirol (V.), The Middle Eastern Question. London, 1904.
Curzon (Lord), Persia and the Persian Question. [Chap. I. contains an account of European literature relating to Persia (900-1891), and there are bibliographical footnotes throughout the volumes.] 2 vols. London, 1892.
Durand (E. R.), An Autumn Tour in Western Persia. London, 1902.
Eastioick (E. B.), Journal of a Diplomat's Three Years' Residence in Persia. 2 vols. London, 1864.
Ferrier(J. J. P.), Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, &c. London, 1856.
Feuvrier (Dr.), Trois Ans a la Cour de Perse. Paris, 1899.
jPrasej- (David), Persia and Turkey in Revolt. London, 1910.
Gordon (Sir T. E.). Persia Revisited, 1895. London, 1890.
ITedin (Dr. Sven), Overland to India. 2 Vols. London, 1910.
