Identifier: indikacountrypeo00hursuoft Title: Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon Year: 1891 (1890s) Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903 Subjects: Sri Lanka India Publisher: New York, Harper Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: es the peninsula eastward,drains an area of 28,000 square miles, and empties by two mouthsinto the Bay of Bengal.f There are but few lakes in India proper. But there aremany, which are very beautiful, in the Tibeto-Himalayan plateau.Among: these are Manasaraur and Rahhas Tal. On the Pamirsteppe, or Roof of the World, is Pamir, or Victoria Lake. Itis fourteen miles long, and gives birth to the Oxus River, flow- * Correspondence of the New York Times (June, 1889). fMedlicott and Blanford, A Manual of the Geology of India, p. iii. THE NATURAL DIVISIONS OF INDIA .,| ing westward, and to the Aksn, which Hows eastward Pangking is a series of saline lakes which extend a distance of onehundred miles. The Runnof Kutch isa great sail marehof about9000 square miles in area, and is one of the chi< \ sources of thesalt supply of India, Palti, Chonito-Dong, Dalguchn, Tengri nor,Bulcho,and Koko-nor,Blue Sea,are all Bituated in the northern Himalayan plateau. In the southern Bimalayan plat.-an are

Text Appearing After Image: A SALT-WELL, Kl nil. the beautiful Kashmir lakes, Srinagar and Manasbal, and \nlar.Konsa Nag, Naini Tal, the Six Lakes of Sikkim, Sambhar, Lonar,Nakhi Talao, Amber, Nal, Chitka, Kolar, and Pulikat. Many oi the tanks, receiving the waters from rivers and rainfalls, arelarge as to compare favorably with natural lakes. The great tank at Haidarabad, in the Deklian, would be readily taken inAmerica for a natural lake. CHAPTER VIII. ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LIFE—MINERALS. India comprises all climates. The uplands along the base ofthe Himalayas remind one of the temperate regions of Europeand the United States, while the southern part of the peninsulais as thoroughly tropical and luxuriant as the West Indies or theMolucca Islands. The animal life derives its varied forms fromthe many Indian climates. In Zerai and Assam the elephant stillruns wild.* The dense jungles are their favorite home. Thewild elephants are caught and tamed, and used for bearing bur-dens or adding to the dignity of petty

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