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Title: Applied geography, a preliminary sketch. With ten maps
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Keltie, John Scott, Sir, 1840-1927
Subjects: Geography, Commercial Geography, Economic
Publisher: London, G. Philip & son, ltd.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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peoples, and about 140 millions under thesway of the Slavs; 100 millions are dominated byTurks, and 400 millions by people of Chineseaffinities; the remainder by various odds and endsof humanity. 01: course the peoples thus variouslydominated are composed of a great variety of races,white, yellow and black; into details of this kindit is not possible to enter here, our object beingsimply to indicate the share which the great rulino-races have in the land and in the population of theglobe. In both aspects little is now left to scramblefor, unless some ambitious Power is prepared toenter upon a great warwith one or other of its rivals. But although almost six-sevenths of the lands ofthe globe have been overlaid with the colours ofPowers of European origin or affinities, it by nomeans follows that they have all been effectivelyoccupied or even completely explored, far lessdeveloped as to their resources. Although evenEurope has not yet been completely mapped, still 188 APPLIED GEOGRAPHY.
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I THE UNSTAKED GLOBE 189 it may be left out of account from that point ofview. Of Asia extensive regions are even yetpractical!)^ unexplored. Not only has a large areaof Southern Arabia been unvisited by any European,and the rest is but imperfectly known, but much ofTibet proper, and the regions bordering it on thenorth and north-east, and even the south-east, arepractically blank on our maps. Considerable areasto the north-west of Tibet and within the Russiansphere, are most imperfectly known. Indeed, theonly thoroughly surveyed countries in Asia,are India and its dependencies, Japan, Siamand certain sections of the Russian sphere, mainlyalong railway routes. China is roughly mapped,but the gigantic task of surveying it has still to becarried out. Patches here and there in WesternAsia have been fairly well mapped, but as a wholethe great continent is either unmapped or mappedin only a very rough fashion. It is even worse with Africa, as might be ex-pected. Great areas are absolutely

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