India Through the Stereoscope

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: standpoint will be included in our field of vision, and that we shall look beyond them out to sea. Now we are ready to take our first position in India. Position 1. Over University and Secretariat, aonth from Rajabai Tower, Bombay Here we are on another continent. Remembering that we are looking south, we...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: standpoint will be included in our field of vision, and that we shall look beyond them out to sea. Now we are ready to take our first position in India. Position 1. Over University and Secretariat, aonth from Rajabai Tower, Bombay Here we are on another continent. Remembering that we are looking south, we understand, of course, that the greater part of India's vast area is at our left reaching far towards both north and south; that Europe is far off behind us at our right; and that our faces are turned toward the great Indian Ocean, though the Arabian Sea stretches immediately before us. Should we sail away from this city in the direction towards which we are looking, we would pass along the Malabar coast, and at a point about eight hundred miles southward, we would reach Minicoy Island (see Map 1), situated between the Laccadive and Maldive groups and about two hundred miles westward of Colombo. I mention this small island, because most travelers to the eastward by the way of Colombo are cheered by a glimpse of this first land after a rather long sea voyage from Aden. To our right hand, towards the west and southwest, an unbroken expanse of water extends to the coast of Africa, fifteen hundred miles away; to our left and eastward for less than one mile, the city of Bombay extends to the harbor. The European city much as it appears before us, showing elegant public and commercial buildings, continues northward (behind us) for one mile, where the native city joins with the European?there we shall take our next position to see what is claimed to be the finest railway station in the world. Again turning to what is before us, the extreme southern end of the island forms a narrow peninsula a little to the right and out of our line of vision and two and a half miles dista...