Identifier: cyclopediaofmiss00newc (find matches)
Title: A cyclopedia of missions : containing a comprehensive view of missionary operations throughout the world : with geographical descriptions, and accounts of the social, moral, and religious condition of the people
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Newcomb, Harvey, 1803-1863
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ined by the Chinese, cannot be much ))elow2,000,000 square miles, including the provincesof Cansuh and Chihli, a little exceeding two-fifths of the whole empire. But estimatingChina Proper, according to the old limits,McCulloch makes its area 1,348,870 sq. miles.Its length from north to south, is 1474 miles,and its breadth 1355 miles. The coast linefrom Hainan to Lcautung is above 2,500 miles,its inland frontier is 4,400 miles, making itseven times larger than France, fifteen timeslarger than the Laiited Kingdom, and nearlyhalf as large as all Eurojie, Avliich contains3,050,000 s(iuare miles. The area of ChinaProper is nearly ecjual to that of the thirty-one United States of America, which is about1,558,424 square mile.?. In the relative posi-tion of the United States and China, there isconsiderable resemblance.which involvesniuchsimilarity of climate. They arc both, on theireastern shores, washed by great oceans. Butin the same latitude, China is considerablycolder than thia countrr.
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ChaoTim-pe-men. I CHINA. 245 Mountains.—The principal mountains of tlieChinese empire, are the outer Hiugau, Daou-riau, and Altai, separating it from Eussia inAsia on the north. These mountains seldomrise more than 7,000 feet above the sea. On itswestern border are the Ak-tak, Belar-tag, andKarakara mountains. On the southern borderare the lofty Himalaya, running south-easterlyto about 950 east long., a distance of morethan 1,000 miles. In the interior of its vastcolonial dominions, are the Celestial Mountains,separating Eastern Turkistan from Souugaria;and, running nearly parallel with them to thesouth, are the Kwanlun mountains running-easterly between Hi on the north, and Thibeton the south. These ranges, with partial in-terruptions, extend to the western borders ofChina Proper, and between them lies the GreatDesert of Gobi, and much of the high tableland of Central Asia. Besides these are theTaugnu mountains on the north-west, the Bay-ankara in Kokonor, the Inner Hingan, run-nin

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