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be that they form a connected whole, all the parts of which 

 are intimately related to each other. 



Extent of the Archipelago and Islands. — The Malay Ar- 

 chipelago extends for more than 4000 miles in length from east 

 to west, and is about 1300 in breadth fi-om north to south. It 

 would stretch over an expanse equal to that of all Europe 



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THE BRITISH ISLES AND BORNEO ON THE SAME SCALE. 



from the extreme west far into Central Asia, or would cover 

 the widest parts of South America, and extend far beyond the 

 land into the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It includes three 

 islands larger than Great Britain ; and in one of them, Borneo, 

 the whole of the British "isles might be set down, and would 

 be surrounded by a sea of forests. New Guinea, though lest; 



