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Rajpoots, 37,280 square geographical miles, pop. two millions. 7. The 

 State of Guzerat, 13,600 square geographical miles, pop. two millions, 

 cap. Baroda, 100,000 inhabitants. 8. Satarah, 8000 square geographical 

 miles, pop. one million and a half. 9. The State of the Holkar, 8480 square 

 geographical miles, pop. one million and a quarter, cap. Indore. 10. 

 Travancore, 6400 square geographical miles, pop. one million, chief towns 

 Travancore and Trivanderam. 



The French possessions in India embrace only 400 square geographical 

 miles, with 170,000 inhabitants, and the town of Pondicherry; the Portu- 

 guese 628 square geographical miles, with 90,000 inhabitants, and the 

 town of Goa. 



There are only two independent states in Hither India : Nepaul, 40,000 

 square geographical miles, wdth two millions and a half of inhabitants, cap. 

 Katmandu ; and Butan or Bootan, with 48,000 square geographical miles, 

 one million and a half inhabitants, and the cap. Tassisudon. The latter 

 state has also been included in Thibet, and is a vassal province of the 

 Chinese empire. 



11. Further India. 



Further India, or the eastern peninsula of the East Indies, beyond the 

 Ganges, embraces about 640,000 square geographical miles, with thirty-six 

 millions of inhabitants. These consist of Burmans, Siamese, Malays, &c. ; 

 most of them speak the Malay tongue, and profess the religion of Budha. 

 The principal states and districts are as follows : 



1. Burmah or Ava, 192,000 square geographical miles, pop. four millions 

 and a half (other accounts vary betw^een two and fourteen millions), cap. Ava; 

 larger towns are Amerapura and Rangoon. 2. Siam, about 144,000 square 

 geographical miles, with three millions and a half of inhabitants, cap. Bangkok, 

 pop. 90,000. 3. Ana??!, consisting of the districts of Cochin China and 

 Tonquin, 208,000 square geographical miles, with twelve millions of inhabit- 

 ants. The royal residence is Hue-Fo in Cochin China : other important 

 towns are Ketcho in Tonquin, and Saygun in Cambodscha. 4. The 

 Pe?iinsula of Malacca contains several small independent states. 3. The 

 British Possessions, belonging to the presidency of Bengal, are : a, Assam, 

 subjected since 1825, 32,000 square geographical miles, pop. one million; 

 h, Provinces taken from the Burmans, viz. Arracan, Martaban, Ye, Tavay, 

 and Tenasserim, in all 27,200 square geographical miles, wdth 250,000 

 inhabitants ; c, Prince of Wales Island, one of the Mergui islands, 128 

 square geographical miles, pop. 61,000 ; cap. Georgetown, with 20,000 

 inhabitants ; e, Island of Si?igapore, south of Malacca, 240 square geogra- 

 phical miles, pop. 21,000. 



12. The East India Islands. 



1. The Laccadives, west of Kindostan, thirty-two inhabited. 2. The 

 Maldives, south of the preceding ; their number amounts to over one 

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