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FLOEES. 207tain is at present quiescent, but at its foot are numerous thermal springs, tliroughwhich the subterranean heats still manifest themselves. Near the village ofGeliting on the north coast, mention is made of another crater, which, however, hasnot yet been identified.South of the Tanjong Bunga, or " Promontory of Flowers," whence the Portu-Fig. 86. Laeantitka Strait. .Scale 1 : 1,000,003.E,t;5 of: GreenwichDepths.100 to 1,000 1,000 FatbcmsFathoms. and upwai-ds.guese term, Flores, a channel about l,-300 yards broad at its narrowest part separatesthis i.sland from the islet of Adonare, and farther south from Solor, which,although the smallest member of the group, gives its name to the archipelagostretching east from Flores. Adonare is much more poijulous as well as larger,and farther cast follows the still more extensive I.omblem. The two islands of the