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tion of history, .jui.-u ' and I',n-kle," attrii 



niiintaliilii >n, usages, manners and laws 



in In.lia MI. .tal countries to their warm 



climate, vast plains and great m.-untains, the grandeur 

 of whose 80-n. i\ ;./.!> the 



I 





inpirinp Environment of ' u brmutiful 



Vale of Tenpe. 



reason. Ti ntific geogrnpli*r "limls tliat 



geographic condititMi- ha\. -:in-.l In.lia to i>olation. 



On tlie land side, a great sweep of high mountains has 

 restricted intercourse with tin- interior: on tin- sea side, 

 the deltaic swamps of the Indus and the Ganges riv. -r> 

 and an unbroken shoreline, backed hy mountains on the 

 of the peninsula and hy coastal marshes and lagoons 

 on the east, have combined to reduce its accessibility from 



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