A Geography of the Madras Presidency. Adapted to the Requirements of the Primary Examination in Accordance with the Revised Grant-in-Aid Code

in the day-time the sun like a great globe of fire seems to rise in the morning in the east travel across the sky and in the evening go down into the ground or the sea in the west. [...] But you may ask as the earth rushes round the sun and the moon round the earth does not the moon sometimes come between the earth and the sun and hide the latter so as to prevent its light from reaching the earth and does not the earth sometimes conic between the moon and the sun in the night-time so as to prevent he bright light of the sun from shining on the moon I Yes ; you are quite righ [...] On the other sides lies the ocean —to the east the Bay of Bengal to the south the Indian Ocean and to the west the Arabian Sea. [...] The Tapti rises near the eastern end of the Satpura mountains in the Central Provinces and flows west through the Central Provinces Berar and the north of the Bombay Presidency along the south of the Satpura mountains into the Arabian Sea close to Surat. [...] Boundaries.—On the north lie the Bombay Presdency Hyderabad the Central Provinces and the Lower Provinces of Bengal ; on the west there is the Arabian Sea on the south the Indian Ocean and on the east the Bay of.Bengal.