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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT.
| ASIATIC RUSSIA. | ||
| fig. | page | |
| 1. | Plateaux and Plains of Central Asia | 3 |
| 2. | Parallelism of the Main Asiatic Ranges | 4 |
| 3. | Mount Everest | 5 |
| 4. | The Han-haï: a dried-up Sea-bed | 8 |
| 5. | Arid Regions and Closed Basins of Asia | 11 |
| 6. | Isobars in January | 13 |
| 7. | Isobars in July | 14 |
| 8. | Curves of the Eastern Asiatic Seaboard and Islands | 16 |
| 9. | Density of the Asiatic Populations | 17 |
| 10. | Distribution of the Asiatic Races | 19 |
| 11. | Chief Religions of Central Asia | 22 |
| 12. | Chief Itineraries of Central Asia | 27 |
| 13. | European Influence in Asia | 29 |
| CAUCASIA. | ||
| 14. | Bed of the Caspian | 35 |
| 15. | Geological Formations of the Central Caucasus | 37 |
| 16. | Hot Springs and Naphtha Regions in the Caucasus | 39 |
| 17. | Profile of the Caucasus as seen from Patigorsk | 40 |
| 18. | Rainfall of the Caucasus | 41 |
| 19. | The Kazbek: View taken from the Kazbek Station | 43 |
| 20. | Kazbek and Devdoraki Glaciers | 44 |
| 21. | Forests of the Caucasus | 45 |
| 22. | The Western Caucasus seen from off Cape Kodor | 50 |
| 23. | The Akhtari Liman | 52 |
| 24. | The Kuka-Oba Mud Volcano | 51 |
| 25. | Abkhasian Type | 58 |
| 26. | Cossack Sentinel | 59 |
| 27. | Valley of the Bzib | 61 |
| 28. | The Taman Peninsula | 62 |
| 29. | Valleys of Erosion in the Kuban Basin | 63 |
| 30. | Passanaùr, on the Tiflis-Vladikavkaz Route | 65 |
| 31. | The Elbruz Group | 66 |
| 32. | Ramification of the Kalaûs | 67 |
| 33. | Delta and flooded Districts of the Lower Terek | 68 |
| 34. | The Terek Floods of 1863 | 69 |
| 35. | Patigorsk and the Region of Thermal Waters | 74 |
| 36. | The Vladikavkaz-Ananur Route through the Terek Valley | 76 |
| 37. | The Tebulos-inta Group | 77 |
| 38. | Mouths of the Terek and Lower Sulak | 80 |
| 39. | The Kuba District | 81 |
| 40. | Nogai Youth | 84 |
| 41. | Mount Gûnib | 85 |
| 42. | Derbent | 87 |
| 43. | Mouth of the Rion | 89 |
| 44. | Upper Ingûr Valley | 93 |
| 45. | Mingrelian Lady | 95 |
| 46. | Kutaïs and the Rion and Kvirila Junction | 97 |
| 47. | Poti | 98 |
| 48. | Batûm | 99 |
| 49. | Akhalkalaki Plateau | 101 |
| 50. | Tatar Type | 102 |
| 51. | The Kura and Araxis Confluence | 103 |
| 52. | Mouths of the Kura | 106 |
| 53. | Chief Regions of Earthquakes in Caucasia | 108 |
| 54. | Oscillations of the Baku Coast during the last 1,500 Years | 109 |
| 55. | The Apsheron Peninsula | 110 |
| 56. | Mtzkhet, Ancient Capital of Georgia | 112 |
| 57. | The Khevsur, Tûsh, and Pshav Lands | 117 |
| 58. | The Suram Pass and Mesk Mountains | 121 |
| 59. | The Kura Valley between Gori and Mtzkhet | 122 |
| 60. | Tiflis | 125 |
| 61. | Yelizavetpol and Vicinity | 126 |
| 62. | The Telav Basin | 127 |
| 63. | Baku and Cape Bail-Burni | 128 |
| 64. | Lenkoran | 129 |
| 65. | Recent Russian Conquests | 131 |
| 66. | Ararat | 132 |
| 67. | Mount Ararat | 133 |
| 68. | Ala-göz | 135 |
| 69. | Lake Gok-chai | 136 |
| 70. | The Alapolarim Lava Streams | 137 |
| 71. | Araxis and Zanga Basin | 143 |
| 72. | Armenian Woman | 144 |
| 73. | The Kars-chai Valley: Kars and Alexandrapol | 146 |
| 74. | Nakhichevan | 148 |
| 75. | Progress of Russian Conquest | 150 |
| 76. | Fever Districts in Caucasia | 151 |
| 77. | Density of the Population of the Caucasus in 1873 per Square Mile | 153 |
| 78. | Highways in Caucasia | 154 |
| 79. | Section of the Route from Vladikavkaz to Jufa | 155 |
| 80. | Shiahs and Sunnites in Eastern Caucasia | 156 |
| 81. | Baku Harbour | 157 |
| 82. | Stavropol | 159 |
| THE ARALO-CASPIAN BASIN. | ||
| 83. | Routes of Explorers in the Aralo-Caspian Basin | 163 |
| 84. | Russian Encroachments in Turkestan | 164 |
| 85. | Routes of Explorers in the Eastern Pamir | 166 |
| 86. | The Alaï and Trans-Alaï Range | 168 |
| 87. | Relief of the Highlands and Plateaux between the Hindu Kush and Tian-shan | 170 |
| 88. | The Alaï Plateau | 172 |
| 89. | The Shchurovskiy Glacier | 173 |
| 90. | Routes of Explorers in the Western Pamir | 174 |
| 91. | Relative Area of the Tian-shan, Alps, and Pyrenees | 175 |
| 92. | Relative Relief of the Tian-shan, Alps, and Pyrenees | 176 |
| 93. | Chief Crests of the Tian-shan | 177 |
