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1. AN OUTLINE OF INDIA.—Though every one knows that India is the brightest gem in the British Crown, and the most important colony on the surface of the globe, yet few young officers arrive in the country with correct ideas of its geographical extent; the amount of its population; the quantity of its resources; the variety of its climate and seasons; or the strength of its army and navy. Its length from north to south, viz., from Peshawur to Cape Comorin, is about 1500 geographical miles, and its breadth from the Kybur Pass to Suddya in Assam about the same distance. Its population is computed at 150 millions (about double the population of Russia); its revenue at