Identifier: encyclopediabrit15bayn (find matches)
Title: The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literature. With new maps, and original American articles by eminent writers. With American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Baynes, Thomas Spencer, 1823-1887
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago R.S. Peale Co
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
N. The area>«sabout 70,000 square miles, with a population of at least650,000.^ The peninsula, which is washed on the westby the Bay of Bengal and IMalacca Strait, on the eastby the Gulf of Siam and China Sea, belongs geogra-phically a!:d ethnically rather to^ the eastern archipelagothan to the Asiatic continent. Hence, whenever theproposed canalization ^ of the isthmus of Krd is carried • A careful calculation made by T. J. Ncwbold in 1838 gave a totalpopulation of 375,000, since which date the British possessions haveincreased about fourfold, from 90,000 to 330,000. Hence, allowing fora slight increase elsewhere, the present population must b- at least650,000 (Political and Statistical Account of the British Settlementsin the Straits of Malacca, Loudon, 1839, vol. i. p. 418). The several projects of canalization are fully discussed by M. LionDra in LExploration for March 9 and 16, 1882. Tlic most feasible,but cot the shortesli loUons th« line of railway already projected iri
Text Appearing After Image:
'

Note About Images