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The Geography of British India, Political
The Geography of British India Political Author:George Smith General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Original Publisher: J. Murray Description: Half-title: The student's manual of the geography of British India. Subjects: India Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the Ge... more »neral Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. INDIA AS A WHOLE. Great Mountains. -- % 1. The Himalaya. § 2. The Safed Koh, Sulai- man, and Khirthar Ranges. § 3. The three Roma and Patkai Ranges. § 4. The Western and Eastern Ghats. § 5. The Aravali, Yindhya, and Satpoora Ranges. Great Rivers. -- % 6. The East Himalaya Rivers -- the Ganges. § 7. The Brahmapootra. § 8. The Irawadi. § 9. The Tsit - toung and Sal ween. § 10. The Indus. § 11. The West Peninsular Rivers -- the Narbada and the Tapti. § 12. The East Peninsular Rivers -- the Mahanadi, Godavari, Ristua, and Kavari with Coleroon. Waterfalls, Lakes, Canals, Forests, and Railways. -- § 13. Waterfalls. § 14. Lakes. § 15. Canals. § 16. Forests. § 17. Trees of India. § 18. Railways. The Coast from Suez Canal to Singapore. -- § 19. Harbours and Roadsteads. § 20. Tides. § 21. Lighthouses and Light Vessels. § 1. The Himalxya ("snow-abode") or HiuiachSl ("snow- mountain "), a word converted by the Greeks into Imaos and Emodos, and generally but incorrectly pronounced as if y in the last syllable were a consonant, is applied (1) to the snow- covered zone of North India, between the Brahmapootra River on the east and the Indus on the west; and (2) to the series of mountain chains forming the southern scarp of the plateau of Tibet (15,000 feet), the Kuenlun which overlooks the lower plains of East Toorkestan and the Gobi Desert being the northern scarp. (1) The Himalaya Proper extend for 1500 miles from the gorge of the Brahmapootra in east longitude 95 30' to ...« less