A Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography Author:Samuel Butler Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: St. George's Channel; the Hebudes, or Western Isles, off the Western coast of Scotland; corruptly called the Hebrides; the Orkneys, off the North of Scotland; an... more »d, North East of them, the Shetland Isles. The Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney, belonging to Great Britain, lie in the English Channel, off the Coast of Normandy. chapter{Section 4CHAPTER IV, ASIA. ASIA is in length about 7580, and in breadth about 5250 British miles. Asia is bounded on the North by the Arctic, on the East by the Pacific, and on the South by the Indian Ocean; its Western boundary, which separates it from Europe, has already been described. Between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean is Anatolia, and at the Eastern extremity of the Mediterranean is Syria, and below it Arabia, between the Arabian and Persian Gulph. East of the Persian Gulph, and above it, is Persia, and South East of Persia is Hindoostan, the antient Empire of the Great Mogul, lying between the Rivers Indus and Ganges, and being that part of Asia in which are the principal British and other European Settlements. In Hindoostan, on the West, is the British settlement of Bombay (an island a little below the Gulph of Carnbay, at the top. of the Peninsula), and above it is the town of Surat on the Continent. Near it is Goa, the chif settlement of the Portuguese. The lower Western coast of the Peninsula is called the coast of Malabar, and the opposite Eastern, that of Coromandel. On the coast of Malabar is the Kingdom of Mysore, formerly possessed by the celebrated chieftains, Hyder AH and his son Tippoo Saib, who were almost always at war with the British. Tippoo Saib was conquered and slain, and his capital, Berin- gapatam, taken by the British, May 4th, 1799; since which time the Mysore has been under the direction of ...« less