. The earth and its inhabitants .. . east to the very heart of Central Asia. Then come the new red sandstones, comprising those Permian formations which take their name from the vast government of Perm, and which extend along the base of the Ural, between the Caspian steppes and the shores of the Frozen Ocean. Jurassic strata skirt the Permian southwards, overlapping them in the centre, thus forming an irregular triangle tapering slowly from the northern tundras to the banks of the Volga. Farther south, chalk, tertiary^ and recent formations are disposed round a granitic

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