. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. INDIA its base in the great mountain chain which , u from Tibet on the ninth, are completedby its three great rivers, the Indus, the Ganges,and the Brahmaputra. These all rise in the Tibetan Mountains beyond the Himalayas, andthe first flowing west, the two latter east, de-seend in a southern direction toward the sea;the Indus discharging itself into the IndianOcean; the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, afterwatering in their separate co
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. INDIA its base in the great mountain chain which , u from Tibet on the ninth, are completedby its three great rivers, the Indus, the Ganges,and the Brahmaputra. These all rise in the Tibetan Mountains beyond the Himalayas, andthe first flowing west, the two latter east, de-seend in a southern direction toward the sea;the Indus discharging itself into the IndianOcean; the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, afterwatering in their separate course a large partof Northern India, uniting to pour their waterstogether by numerous mouths into the Bay ofBengal. The mountains enclosing the basins ofthese rivers form the east and west boundariesof the northern part of the peninsula. I lie Him-alayas, the loftiest mountain range in the world,with heights of upward of five miles above thelevel of the sea, descend by successive slopesto the elevated plain of Northern India. (SeeIndus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Himalaya.)The entire peninsula is sometimes distinguishedby three natural divisions. The Vind
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