Excerpt from Asia, Vol. 1 The Asiatic coast-line is more diversified than that of Africa or South America, especially on the south side, which is varied with large peninsulas, gulfs, and islands. But the central mass, including the plateaux and deserts, presents a great uniformity of outline. This region, limited southwards by the Himalayas, Dapsang, and Karakorfim, almost everywhere presents other lofty ranges - in the west the numerous crests of the Pamir, in the north-west the Tian-shan, in the north the Altai. In the ...
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Excerpt from Asia, Vol. 1 The Asiatic coast-line is more diversified than that of Africa or South America, especially on the south side, which is varied with large peninsulas, gulfs, and islands. But the central mass, including the plateaux and deserts, presents a great uniformity of outline. This region, limited southwards by the Himalayas, Dapsang, and Karakorfim, almost everywhere presents other lofty ranges - in the west the numerous crests of the Pamir, in the north-west the Tian-shan, in the north the Altai. In the north-east and east the several chains separated by intervening river valleys. This upland tract, which includes Tibet, Kushgaria, and the Gobi Desert, presents the form of a vast trapeze gradually narrowing towards the west. Near its south-west angle there rises a lofty mountain nucleus formed by the junction of the Himalayas and Karakorum, and marking the centre of gravity of the whole continent. From this central mass, which is otherwise less elevated than many other Asiatic mountain systems, there radiate three vast plains and as many tablelands, disposed like the spokes of a wheel. The lowlands are the plain of Tatary in the north-west, the Tarim basin in the east, and in the south and south-east the depression furrowed by the Indus and Ganges; the highlands are the Pamir, Tibet, and Iran. The last named doubtless begins with the hindu-hush, a mountain range separating the Indus and Oxus valleys; but this mass is of very small extent, and the uplands attached to it, while less extensive and less elevated, are more geometrical in their outlines than those of Tibet. The Iranian tableland, comprising most of Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and Persia, forms a trapeze whose northern and southern sides are almost perfectly parallel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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