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Identifier: cu31924095158964 (find matches)
Title: The universal geography : the earth and its inhabitants
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London : J.S. Virtue & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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d by the three continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa is not farremoved from the plains where stood the famous cities of Persia and Assyria. Itlies at the south-west angle of the Caspian, so that the tower of Babel really standswhere the legend placed it, on the confines of three worlds. Eastwards Asiastretches away to the ocean where the sim rises; on the south the parchedArabian peninsula announces the neighbourhood of Africa; while on the north-west Anatolia lies at the threshold of Europe. Through the Suez Canal, separatingit from Africa, Hither Asia has again become for maritime trade the centre ofgravity of the continental group; through the junction of the future railwaysystems it will also, sooner or later, become the central emporium of the OldWorld. According to the approximate estimates of the number of inhabitants ofthe eastern hemisphere, the centre of population would at present coincide withthe south-western region of the Tibetan plateau^—that is, with an almost unin-
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BAALBEK-EUINS OF THE TWO TEMPLES. GENEEAL SURVEY. 11 habited land. But the rapid increase of Europeans is deflecting the point ofequilibrium more and more to the west, towards the passes of the Hindu-Kush,which are historically so important as highways of commimication between the twohalves of the Aryan world. Doubtless the assimilation of Hither Asia to the West in respect of its trade,industries, and general culture must prove a work of time and great difficulty.Nor can the material civilisation introduced from Europe fail to be affected by thegenius of the East, in appearance so pliant, in reality so tenacious. The Asiaticwill never slavishly accept the lessons of the foreigner. He modifies all he touches,and, to their cost, the Greeks and Romans abeady discovered what it meant to live Pig. 4.—Centrai, Point op the Old Woeld.Scale 1 : 200,000,000.

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