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EASTERN GEOGRAPHY. 



China, from whieh they project southward*, presenting a roast-line 

 df from 1000 to 1200 mile*, the otut toward* the 12uy of Bengal, the 

 other towards the China Sea* Both alro art traversed hy extensive 

 eoasl ranges, breaking up each region into .-everal distinct phynieal 

 section*, and watered hy two grunt rivers (lowing southwards and 

 t. - 1- u l L c i ; l1 :ng in the vast Irowaddy and M&kltOng delta* respectively. 

 Thin curAuttU paralhdisni extends even to the ethnical and >]itical 

 relations, the Western Bvriiirce and Tulaing* finding their counter- 

 part iit the esLnte rn Aniiaine* j and Camhojan! 1 , nil nf which elements 

 have I -i -« - 1 j nii]> i[\i[U: rv-t^'Hl I v and ahnuNt Huinllaui'mi/dy hn night 

 under the direct sovereignty ««f tin- lw«» puwrrs contending i«»r 

 aWliite Pii|»reiiijiL<y in i liu- ludu-Clmie*' peninsula. Btit heiv the 



atmlugy een>.-, i.r ruth. :■ rm-la I hy a v i-'t.-n: imiSra-l. I'-r while 



l'ritish Burundi can k>e reguvi.li.-d ■ -nly a^ .l natural ilImI altuu.-t inevit- 

 able expansion uf the adjacent Itidian Empire, the French emi<pie-.t 

 seems like an aggressive movement, uiiniolived hy any p"l:i:i'ut 

 urgency, commercial orenlonial interests. 



At jii tin 1 Went Miien tin* extension of JlritinU rule tn the whole of the 

 Irawnhty lia-an, the iltstiaetiua In- I won (Tape? and Ixiwer Uiinnuh lifts 

 eciH''d to have nay Kigmhmaee, m in tJiu ea-d the French occupation of the 

 wholn region Ij.ls imieh himplitW iu n.nm*-vchnt intricate geographical atal 

 piMli-ul iiinmuidatur*', I'y ih" forced retirement of tin- Ariniirnesr • iii|i> i <ti . 

 naia the king «f (.'ninlmjn'ii voluntary surrender of his refill fnnethniH, the 

 t.'ruK '!'">'•'.'• n aad u nppnsed to Anmrm, Latere «r bWn\-h 



(Wt\ in-China cw dUtlnet from Cani^qw* have ceased to possess maeh mote 

 than na lii-t.kr:. .it vain.", una the whale region than merged in em.- ]Nililicnl 

 system may now bo conveniently treated as a single geographical nrcn, 



Position— Extent— Population.— Take o in thia ep.uipivhen-ivn 

 sense, French Iniki-Chisa, u it must now be called* describes nn 



i'Ktr.'ta-dy graceful cuTVe ill ill- I". -Tin -1 a h-th-V S 1'i.lltid the China- 

 t-H-ti. I ha two extremities expanding intu tin* great delta* of the Bed 

 River uud Mokhung (see ]k while the run heeling *haft i-< furmed 

 hy the intermediate mri*!. nmge. It thiir. ilip- --jiaraie 



ge%T)iphical arnus — the alluvial plains id' Tonkin and Cainhuja {with 

 Lower Cochin-Cliina) in the north and Ninth, mud the eqaii rcghm 

 cif C'*jeh in-China pm]WT in tin- eetiJiv. Hounded mi the nurth hy 

 the t'hinese |»ruvinees <»f Kwaug-^i and Vniman, uti tin- wt'-t l«y 

 Stain, and elsewhere hy the China Sea, it slrrtrhes acn^n lifieen 

 degrees of latitude {23" 30"— 8' 30') for alwiit 1000 miles between the 

 ( 'iii i t'l'uurii-r aih H 'api't'ainhuja. In hivadth il. varies fiinnnou^ly, 

 from over 400 tntles in the smith (lOa" 1 — 100' E. long.) and 2^0 in 

 the nnrth (lOS^—lOS" Ion-;,) Ui little over 50 in the central part^ 

 where the Siaim-.-e Ir-aiiier advance- lu a >h..rt distulu.'e of the China 



