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§ 1. Extent. § 2. Hindustan and the Deccan. § 3. Physical
Divisions of Northern India. § 4. The Himalaya and Sulemán Moun-

tia Nagpain-Zones. § 5. The Plains of Northern India. § 6. The North-

Eastern Valleys. § 7. The Málwa Plateau. § 8. Physical Divisions

f Southern India. § 9. The Plateau of the Deccan and Mysore.

10. The Western Maritime Fringe. § 11. The Eastern Maritime

ringe. § 12. Ceylon. § 13. British Burma. § 14. Coast-line and
arbours.

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§ 1. Extent.-India may be described roughly as the

›untry which lies north and south between the Himalaya
ountains and the Great Indian Ocean. From the port of Ka-
hi in the extreme west, to the eastern borders of Assam,
a distance of about 1,800 miles; a like distance separates
o pe Comorin in the south from the northern extremity of
Punjab; and the area included between these limits has
INDIAn estimated at about 1,500,000 square miles. India

The Watershed 3 extends from the 8th degree of north latitude to the

The Watershed; and from the longitude of 66° 44′ to that of 99° 30'

INI of Greenwich.

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