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Volume 14 Australasia - dana ward's homepage

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noAUSTRALASIA.coast. Belonging geologically to the Malay peninsula, and like it consistingmainly of granite and sandstones, they rise in undulating cliffs, above wliicLiappear a few higher summits, or "mountains," as the natives call them. One ofthe eminences in Bintang attains a height of 1,700 feet, which is still 2,000 feetlower than the peak of Lingga (3,700 feet), culminating point in the island of likename, in the southern group. Notwithstanding their healthy climate, due to theabsence of marshy tracts, a large number of the islands are still uninhabited, andFig. H.—Riouw Ap.chipelago.Scale 1 : 1,640,000.7/Jl^3S-^^P^Lasb or GreenDeptlia.Pto80Feet.

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