Islam & Its Founder (Classic Reprint)

Jezeret-ul-A rab, or the Chersonese of A rabia, is the name given by its inhabitants to the great peninsula which, bordered by the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, and the deserts which extend to theE uphrates, stretches, in round numbers, from the 12th to the 34th degree of north latitude. I ts length, from theM editerranean to theS traits of Bab-el-M andeb, is about 1,400 miles, its breadth across the neck of the peninsula is 800 miles, whilst its coast-line on the Indian Ocean approaches 1,200 miles. Although A rabia is not greatly inferior in extent to I ndia, it does not possess a single navigable river. Few of its streams reach the ocean. Most of them exist only when swelled by the periodic rains, and, as a rule, lose themselves in the sandy plains. A rabia forms a part of that barren and nearly rainless region, of which theS ahara, in A frica, and the deserts of Shamo, inT hibet, form the western Muir, I. cxlvi.
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