...Alderney, belonging to Great Britain, lie in the English Channel, off the Coast of Normandy. 40 CHAPTER IV, ASIA is in length about 7580, and in breadth about...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,...

...variety of surface, soil, and climate. It is encompassed by the sea on nearly every side, being washed on the north by the Arctic, on the east by the Pacific, and on the south by the Indian Ocean, and is bounded on the west by the Red, the Mediterranean, and the Black seas. This great region is...

...Thiaka is the ancient Ithaka. SECTION II. ASIA. 301. Asia, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the Pacific, and on the south by the Indian Ocean, has, on its western side, European Russia, the Caspian and Black Seas, the Greek Archipelago, and the...

...bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean ; on the west by Europe, and the Mediterranean and Red Seas; on the east by the Pacific ; and on the south by the Indian Ocean. It was in Asia that Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, were created. It was here also o.ur Saviour,...

...third of the whole land-surface of the globe. On three sides the continent is bounded by the ocean : on the north by the Arctic, on the east by the Pacific, 011 the south by the Indian Ocean. Its west side is also bounded by water, except where its frontier...

...of China, and a few miles northeast of Borneo. It is washed on the north and west by the China sea, on the east by the Pacific, and on the south by the Celebes sea. With its southern extremity less than 5° and its northern limit 21° north of the equator,...