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Historical and Descriptive Account of British India (Volume 3); From the Most Remote Period to the Conclusion of the Afghan War - Softcover
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1844. Excerpt: ... GEOLOGY, AND MINERALOGY. CHAPTER VIII. Climate. Himmaleh Region--Middle India--Peninsular India--Height of the Land in the Peninsula--Meteorology--1. Changes in the Pressure of the Atmosphere; 2. Composition of the Atmosphere ; 3. Effects of Mountain-air; 4. Temperature of the Atmosphere ; 5. Making of Ice in India; 6. Snow-line; 7. Height of the Snow-line in the Himmalehs; 8. Evaporation ; 9. Humidity of the Atmosphere; 10. Dew; 11. Rain; 12. Monsoons; 13. Hail; 14. Falling Stars and Meteoric Stones ; 15. Mirage; 16. Black Colour of the Sky over the Himmalehs; 17. Zodiacal Light; 18. Miasmata; 19. Climate; 20. Sanitary Depots-- Table of Comparative Temperatures. In the view we are now about to take of it, India may be considered as formed of^three grand divisions, viz. 1. The Himmaleh. 2. Thebelt of flat country extending from the Indus to the Brahmapoutra, which may be distinguished by the name of Middle India. 3. The region which constitutes Peninsular India 1. Himmaleh or Alpine Region.--The central and interior region of Asia, which forms neither an immense cluster of mountain-chains nor a continued table-land, is crossed from east to west by four grand systems of mountains, which have manifestly influenced the movements of the population;--these are, the Altai, which is terminated on the west by the mountains of Kirghiz, the Teenshan, the Kwan-lun, and the Himmaleh chain. Between the Altai ahd the Teen-shari, are placed Zungaria and the basin of the Ele; between Teen-shan and the Kwan-lun, Little or rather Upper Bucharia, or Cashgar, Yarkand, Khoten, the great desert Cobi (or Cha-mo), Toorfan, Khamil (Hami), and Tangout, that is, the Northern Tangout of the Chinese, which must not be confounded with Thibet or Sefan; lastly, between the Kwan-lun and the Himmaleh, Eastern and We...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1153945150
- ISBN 13 9781153945158
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages150
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