 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 362 pages
...mountains, and east of the river Indus ; and it consists, in great part, of a large peninsula, having the bay of Bengal' on the east, and the Arabian sea on the west. 2. It consists of four great divisions ; 1st, Northern Hindoslan, which comprises Cash'mere and Lahore'... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 356 pages
...mountains, and east of the river Indus ; and it consists, in great part, of a large peninsula, having the bay of Bengal' on the east, and the Arabian sea on the west. 2. It consists of four great divisions ; 1st, Northern Hindoslan, which comprises Cash'mere and Lahore'... | |
 | Alexander F. Foster - 1852 - 398 pages
...diversified by the Nilg-iri. These high lands, however, do not reach to the sea, but are separated from the Bay of Bengal on the east, and the Arabian Sea on the west, by a low seaboard of unequal breadth. The coasts are singularly destitute of indentations, especially... | |
 | William Jones (F. S.) - Marine animals - 1871 - 488 pages
...Arabia, and Africa. Gradually narrowing from south to north, the Indian Ocean forks at Cape Cormorin into the Bay of Bengal on the east, and the Arabian Sea on the west, the latter again branching off into two arms, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea; which reach respectively... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1881 - 104 pages
...English rule. 3. The shores of India are washed by the two great branches of the Indian Ocean—the Bay of Bengal on the east, and the Arabian Sea on the west. The coast-line, though not by any means regular, is not deeply indented by gulfs or bays, except in the... | |
 | Alfonzo Gardiner - 1884 - 186 pages
...chief Possession in Asia is In'-dia or Hin'-duS-tan", a large triangular peninsula in the south, having the Bay of Ben-gal' on the east, and the A-ra'-bian Sea on the west. This immense country is about 12 times the size of the British Islands, Pand contains probably 252... | |
 | Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt - 1898 - 1214 pages
...from Baluchistan to Assam, is over 2000 miles. The geographical position of this vast promontory, with the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west, a great part lying within the ton-id, the rest within the temperate zone, its physical characters,... | |
 | John Bakeless - Competition, International - 1921 - 290 pages
...Great Britain entered upon an effort for the control of the passages into the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Bengal on the east, and the Arabian Sea on the west, and of the passages from the Indian Ocean into these two smaller bodies of water. Soon it was found... | |
 | Geography - 1924 - 810 pages
...either of sand, a stiff clay, or more generally a mixture of both. It slopes almost imperceptibly from the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west, up to the water-parting about 900 feet above sea-level, in the region south of Simla. The constitution... | |
 | Geography - 1924 - 674 pages
...either of sand, --.iff clay, or more generally a mixture of both. It slopes almost imperceptibly from the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west, up to the water-parting about 900 feet above sea-level, in the region south of Simla. The constitution... | |
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the bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian sea on the west. The Ganges, the largest river of Hindostan, and one of the largest in Asia, rises in the 
