ABSTRACT

The Three Primary Divisions of Asia—The Altaid System—Argand’s Synthesis—Professor F. E. Suess and the Asiatic Synthesis—Turkestan and the Reversal of the Asiatic Direction—The Persian Arc—The Himalaya—Mongolia and the Gobi—Siberia and the Arc of Verkhoyansk—The Eastern Marginal Arcs—South-Eastern Asia—Conclusions.