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182 AREAS OF NORTH AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN RIVER-BASINS.
Bandar TU/,* a small port on the main, and they do not seem to have attempted
to re-establish themselves either here or at any other place in the gulf.
I do not find any reference to the early history of the place in any of the old
geographers, it being only mentioned by name. The British occupied tne island
as a menace to Persia in 1838-12, and again during the Persian war of 1856-7.
Thevenotf visited the island in 1665, and says there was some trade with Basrah
to Bandar Rig and Ispahan “ to avoid custom-house.”
AREAS OF NORTH AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN RIVER-
BASINS.
To the May number of Petermanns Mitteilungen Dr. Alois Bludau contributes the
concluding instalments of his recalculations of the river-basins of the globe outside
of Europe by the method explained in our note on the first instalment in vol. ix.
p. 666 . As in our former tables at that place, and in vol. xi. pp. 61-63, Dr.
Bludau’s figures, which are to the nearest multiple of 1C00 square kilometres, are
here given to the nearest multiple of 500 square miles, which explains some dis
crepancies between the totals and the sum of the individual items in the tables
below, the totals being obtained, not by summation, but by conversion from Dr.
Bludau’s figures.
NORTH AMERICAN RIVER-BASINS.
A. General Synopsis.
Sq. miles.
1 . Domain of Pacific Ocean... 1,731,500
2. Domain of Arctic Ocean... 2,411,000
3. Domain of Atlantic Ocean
(a) Domain of open sea 992,500
(b) Domain of Gulf of
Mexico 2,009,500
(c) Domain of Caribbean
Sea 131,000
4. Regions of inland drainage 393,500
7,701,500
B. Domain of the Pacific Ocean.
1. Panama to Cape Elena .... 23,000
*2. Cape Elena to Tehuantepec 35,000
3. Tehuantepec to Petacalco
Bay 28,500
4. Petacalco Bay to San Bias 68,500
5. Rio Grande de Santiago... 50,000
6 . Rio de Mesquital ... 19,000
7. Rio de Mesquital to Rio
Yaqui 51,500
8 . Rio Yaqui and Rio de la
Asuncion 68,500
9. Rio Colorado 228,000
10. Rio Colorado to Cape San
Lucas 6,000
B. Domain of the Pacific Ocean—
continued.
11 .
Cape San Lucas to the
Sq. miles.
boundary of the LT.S. ...
J.7,500
12 .
Boundary of the U.S. to
San Francisco
22,000
13.
San Joaquin and Sacra-
mento
48,500
14.
San Francisco to the
Columbia
40,500
15.
Columbia
253,000
16.
The Columbia to the
Frazer ...
20,000
17.
Frazer
90,000
18.
Frazer to Mount St. Elias
123,500
19.
Mount St. Elias to the
Yukon
197,000
20 .
Yukon
305,500
21 .
Yukon to Cape Prince of
Wales
25,500
1,731,500
C. Domain of the Arctic Ocean.
L Cape Prince of Wales to
Mackenzie river ... 160,000
2 . Mackenzie 641*000
3. Mackenzie to Repulse bay 276|oO()
Niebuhr, ‘ 1 ravels in Arabia in 1762,’ refers to this potentate as a “detestable
monster.’
t ‘ Ihe Travels of M. de Thevonot into the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. .’ London: 1687 Newly done
out of French. ’ ^