Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878

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Excerpt from Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878: Handbook to the British Indian SectionIt is a remarkable coincidence that Europe should repeat on a smaller scale the main features of the coast line of Asia. The peninsula of Arabia is repeated in the Iberian peninsula, Asia Minor and Persia in France, India in Italy, Burma, Siam, Anam, and the Eastern Archipelago in Turkey, Greece, and the Grecian Archipelago, and the Chinese Empire in Russia, while Japan is placed on the east of the euro-asian continent sym metrically with the British Isles on the west. The parallelism between India and Italy is very striking, the Himalayas are repeated in the Alps, the Indus and Ganges in the Rhone and the Po, Karachi is Genoa or Marseilles, Calcutta, Venice, Delhi, Milan, Bombay, Naples, Ceylon, Sicily, and the Laccadive and Maldive Islands are the mountain peaks of a submerged Corsica and Sardinia.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.