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About The Book -: All the forms, both of nature and society, are presented there on a grander scale than in other regions. Its empires are more vast, its capitals more splendid, its population greater perhaps than that of all the rest of the world united. Its palaces, blazing with gold and gems, seem to eclipse all the splendour that shines in the courts of Europe. Asia is traversed by mountains which equal, and probably surpass the loftiest chains of other continents, and which look down from their eternal snows on plains covered with magnificent cities, and all the pomp of cultivation. In Asia, all has continued fixed as by enchantment. We see empires, whose origin is lost in the unknown beginnings of time; a system of laws, institutions, and ideas, which has remained unaltered during thousands of years; a picture of the domestic life of man, as it existed in the earliest ages. In regard to arrangement, the following, after some consideration, appeared the most advantageous. The First Book contains “General Travels through Asia,” including the narratives of those travellers who went over the larger part of it, or passed from one to another of its great divisions. In the succeeding Books the leading natural divisions of Asia, with travels performed through each, are successively treated of. About the Author -: Hugh Murray FRSE FRGS (1779–1846) was a Scottish geographer and author. He is often referred to as Hew Murray. He was the younger son of Rev Matthew Murray FRSE (1735–1791), minister of North Berwick. Murray entered the Edinburgh excise office as a clerk. On 22 January 1816 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Rev Thomas Brown, John Leslie and John Playfair. At this time he was living at 24 Stockbridge, Edinburgh. He was for a time editor of the Scots Magazine, and was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London. His connection with Archibald Constable's Edinburgh Gazetteer caused him to figure in the Tory squib, written by James Hogg and others, called Translation from an Ancient Chaldee MS., which appeared in Blackwood's Magazine for October 1817. Murray died after a short illness. The Title 'Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Asia written/authored/edited by Hugh Murray', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121260893 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 557 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:- 3rd