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# CLIMATE, 



GEOLOGY, A^D MINERALOGY. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 Climate. 



8. Evaporation; 9;, Hum.d.n- of the A^m-Ph-e 10^ De^^_^ 



Dep6ts-Table of Comparative Temperatures. 



In the view we are now about to take of it, India mav 

 be considered as formed of three grand divisions viz.— 

 1. The Himmaleh. 2. The belt of flat country extending 

 from the Indus to the Brahmapoutra, which may be distm- 

 Juished bv the name of Mnidle Ind^a. 3. The region 

 which constitutes Peninsular I'tdia. 



1. i7„„mfl/r;t or ^/pn,.ii.-.o«— The central and interior 



Tecrion of Asia, which forms neither an immense cluster ot 

 mountain chains nor a continued table-land, is crossed from 

 east to west by four grand systems of mountams, ^^hlch 

 have manifestly influenced the movements of the PopulaUon ; 

 these are the Altai, which is terminated on the ^^.t b^ ^ 

 mountains of Kirghiz, the Teen-shan the Kw=^n-lun and 

 the Himmaleh chain. Between the AUai ^"d the Teen- 

 shan are placed Zungaria and the basin of t'^/'l« ' ^^I 

 tween Teen-shan and the Kwan-lun, Little or rather Lppe 

 Bucharia, or Cashgar, Yarkand, Khoten, the ?^^^' d^"' 

 Gobi (or Cha-mo), Toorfan, Khamil (Hami), and Tangout 

 that is. the Northern Tangout of the Chmese, which mu»t 



