rOEMS or INSULAE LANDS. 195 



that if this large island were to be submerged beneath the sea, its 



Fig. 85.— Nossi-Mitsiou. 



shores would resemble, by their contour, those of its two neighbours 

 in the sea of the Moluccas.* 



Beside these fragments of ancient or modern continental masses, 

 all the projections which show themselves above the level of the 



* Oscar Peschal, Auslar.d, 1868. 

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