Excerpt from A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, or a Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Vol. 4
N.e. Extremity it is divided from the continent of America by Behring's straits. On the N. It is bounded by the Icy ocean, which here forms a series of obscure gulfs and promontories, extending throughout the vast space of 1 30 degrees of longitude, but of which little knowledge has yet been obtained. Its boundaryoon the E. Is the Pacific ocean, under names of the sea of Kamtschatka, the sea of Japan, the Yellow sea, the Chinese sea, 8m. On the S. It is bounded by the Indian ocean, under a variety of names derived from the difl'erent coasts which it laves, and which here forms the two great Indian peninsulas. The Arabian gulf, the isthmus of Suez, the Mediterranean, the Grecian archipelago, the Dardanelles, the sea of Marmora, the straits of constantidople, the Black sea, and a part of the imaginary line already noticed, my be considered as forming the west a'n boundaries of Asia.
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