ABSTRACT
The year 1833, which saw startling developments in connection with the Egyptian advance in Syria, was in England devoted to a study of ways and means of utilizing the Euphrates route to proper advantage. Various members of Parliament became converts to the Euphrates route, and its espousal by the Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston, gave assurance of the serious purposes of the Government and its willingness to brave any attitude shown by France or Russia. F. R. Chesney reached England in August, 1837, realizing that the immediate opening of the Euphrates route, at least in the manner he had advocated, was a forlorn hope. The principal count that can be brought against the Euphrates survey lies in the fact that it postponed for a time the development of a route the utility of which had already been proved and which was badly needed — that by way of Egypt and the Red Sea.
