Europe and Asia constitute but one continent

extending from W. to E., and having the shape of an_ immense triangle, the angles of which are ‘Spain in the W., the peninsula of the Tchuktchis in the N. E., and that of Malacea in the 8. E. The Arctic Ocean in the N., the Pacific in the E., and the Indian Ocean, continued by its narrow gulf, the Red Sea, which nearly reaches the Mediterranean, inclose the continent of Asia. The area covered by Asia and its islands is 17,- 255,890 square miles; that is, almost exactly one-third of the land surface of the globe (32 per cent). It is one seventh larger than the surface of both Americas together, by one-half larger than that of Africa, and more than four times larger than Europe.