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reb; Arabia Deserta (the Desert, or sandy, in the middle); and Arabia Felix (the Happy, S.), now Yemen. Saba was at the S. Western extremity of AraLia, and Arsinoe or Oleopatri., now Suez, at the N. Western. The Arabs are descended from Ismael.
PER1SIA, a country of Asia,--half the area of Arabia, with 1 mil. in pop. less th the latter.-extends from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian, and from the Euphrates and Tigris to the borders of Af­ ghanistan. Persia Proper, or Persis (now Fars), was the am of antiquity, so called from Sem's eldest son.
AFGHANISTAN', a country as large as Asiatic Turkey, with only half its pop., extending from Tartary, N., to the Indian Ocean, S., and om India, E., to Persia, W. The tract anciently called Aria, ex­ tending om fedia (which was the country along the S. of the Caspian, to India, included the whole, or the greater part, of Af- ghanistan.
HrnnosTAN1 or Western Peninsula, or India om the Indus, is one­ third the area of Europe. or equal in size to Arabia, together with half of Asiatic Turkey, and has a pop of 141 mil. A.N. India in­ tra Gangem,-In ia within the Ganges.
EAs'TERN PENIN1SULA, a country extending om Tibet and China, N., to the Gulf of Siam, S., and om Bengal Bay and Hindostan, W., to the Chinese Sea, E. Area, 800,000 sq. m.; pop. 18 mil. A.N. India extra Gangem,-extra, beyond.
Cm'NA, a country N. of the Ch. Sea and the E. Peninsula, of the same size as Hindostan, with about half the pop. of all Asia. It is called by the natives Tchon-Koue,-the Centre of the Earth.
TIB1ET, a high table-land, three times as large as Spain, with a pop. of only 5 mil., is N. of India. It is styled by the natives Pue or Pue- uchim,-the Snowy Land of the North.
TAR1TARY or Tatary. is a vast tract extending the whole breadth of Asia, S. of Asiatic Russia. Area, ne ly 4 mil. sq. m.; pop. 17 mil. A.N. ythia.
AsrAT1IC Rus'sIA, or Siberia, a tract E. of Russia in Europe, and N. of Tartary, 10 times as large as Persia; pop. 8 mil. A.N. Sarmatia Asiatica.
1. Tms grand division of the globe, the second in rank and importance, even in modern times, is rst in extent and population. It is bounded, nortli, by the Northern Ocean ; west, by Europe, the Sea of Azof, the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmora, the Arch­ ipelago, the Mediterranean, the Isthmus of Suez, and the Red Sea; south, by the Indian Ocean; and east, by the Paci c Ocean. It csmtains the llowing coun­ tries: Turkey in Asja, Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan,
Hindostan, Eastern Peninsula, China, Tibet, Eastern or Chinese Tartary, Western or Independent Tartary,