PART 1L 



IXDO-CHINA. 



CHAPTER I a 



QEVEHALSUKVEY — PHYSICAL FEATURES — MOUNTAIN AND RIVES SYSTEMS 

 — SEABOAIED— -1ELAKDS, 



Position— Boundaries— Extent, — Tho term Iitdu-Ckiiui, for 

 which alternative expressions are Further India and Tran*$angetic 

 Tjullttj WiW Originally |>n?pOB«il by M:.hv Knin fur thi' »-;iHtrrri[m»Hl 

 of tho three great Asiatic peninsulas, forming the south-eastern 

 limb of the eontinent. Ii thin curri-^xnulH hi jjnsitiuti ami .some 

 other respects with Iho Balkan Peninsula of the European Continent, 

 and, like it, is continued south and south -eastwards by numerous 

 insular groups, through which it gradually merges in the Australian 

 iimmhniih 



Washed on tho west hy the Bay of Bcngalj which hero develops 

 the Gulf of Martaban, on the south and cast hy tho China Sen, with 

 the corresponding Gulfs of Riam and Tonkin, Indo-t 'hhui abuts on 

 its north-west frontier with India, and on the nnrth with China, But 

 the term Indo-Chiua was suggested not so much hy thin geograph- 

 ical position, as by tl«> twofold origin o£ its religious and social 

 culture, derived partly from China, but tu a uuiuh greater extent 

 from India. Hence'the alternative expression Transgangetic India, 

 strictly correct in a geographical sense, may also be justified on 

 historic grounds. 



Excluding from consideration its extreme southern prolongation 

 through the Malay Peninsula, which is treated separately in this; 

 series, Iudo-Chins presents ft somewhat compact oval form disposed 

 in the direction from north-west to south-east, and comprised almost 

 entirely between I0 g N. tat. and the Tropic of Cancer, but projecting 

 in tho extreme south-east to Cape Cambuja (G D N* Int.), aiid in the 

 extreme north-west to about 27° K. lat. to the Falkoi Mountains here 



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