Central Asia and the Steppes
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"According to the late Sir Roderick Murchison, — no mean authority on questions relating to geognosy, — at a time long antecedent to the creation of man, the vast region, familiarly known to the present generation as Central Asia, was covered by a sea that washed the foot of a mountain range, which, at a later period, constituted the boundary lines of Afghanistan and the Chinese Empire. This pro-historic sea was spread over an area computed at 8000 square marine leagues, and extended from the Hindoo Koosh to the European shores of the Black Sea and the Sea of Asof. To this huge depression on the surface of the globe Sir Roderick proposed — in compliment to Humboldt the originator of the theory — to give the name of the Aralo-Caspian Sea, whose denizens appear to have had a purely local range, and to have been clearly distinguishable from the molluscs and other marine animals inhabiting the outer ocean."
Central Asia: from the Aryan to the Cossack, by James Hutton. London 1875; p. 1.
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