The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir

By: McCrone Douie, James

Book Excerpt: ...eg; 2' N., which is much the same as the latitude of Syracuse. In the south-east the Panj b ends at 27 4' N., corresponding roughly to the position of the southernmost of the Canary Islands. Lines drawn west from Pesh war and Lahore would pass to the north of Beirut and Jerusalem respectively. Mult n and Cairo are in the same latitude, and so are Delhi and Teneriffe. Kashm r stretches eastwards to longitude 80 3' and the westernmost part of Waz rist n is in 69 2' E. Distribution of Area. --The area dealt with is roughly 253,000 square miles. This is but two-thirteenths of the area of the Indian Empire, and yet it is less by only 10,000 square miles than that of Austria-Hungary including Bosnia and Herzegovina. The area consists of: sq. miles(1) The Panj b 97,000 (2) Native States dependent on Panj b Government 36,500 (3) Kashm r 81,000 (4) North West Frontier Province 13,000 (5) Tribal territory under the poli...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08KH3S987
• ISBN13: 9798678619860
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"