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open towards the west, a small range of volcanic islands, 

 comprising, first, between the Var Diemen and Colnet 

 Straits, the Jakuno sima and the Tanega sima; second 

 south of the Strait of Colnet in the Li nschot en-group 64 of 

 Siebold (the Archipel Cecile of Captain G-uerin), which ex- 

 tends as far as the parallel of 29, the island of Suvase sima, 

 the volcano island of Captain Belcher (lat. 2939' and long. 

 129 41') rising, according to De la Roche Poncie, to a height 

 of 2800 feet (855 met.) ; third, Basil Hall's sulphur island, 

 the Tori-sima, or Bird Island, of the Japanese, the Lung- 

 hoang-shan of Pere Gaubil, in lat. 27 51' and long. 128 14', 

 as fixed by Captain De la Roche Poncie in 1848. As this 

 island is also called Iwosima, care must be taken not to con- 

 found it with its more northerly namesake in Van Diemen's 

 Straits. It has been admirably described by Captain Basil Hall. 

 Between the parallel of 26 J and 27 of latitude comes in suc- 

 cession the group of the Lieu-thieu, or Loo-choo Islands, as 

 the natives call them, of which Klaproth published a separate 

 map in 1824, and more to the south-west the small Archi- 

 pelago of Majicosima, which approaches the great island of 

 Formosa, and is considered by me to be the closing point of 

 the eastern Asiatic islands. Close to the east coast of Formosa 

 (lat. 24) a great volcanic eruption in the sea was observed 

 by Lieutenant Boyle in 1853 (Commodore Perry, Exped. to 

 Japan, vol. i, p. 500). Among the Benin Islands ( Buna- 

 sima of the Japanese, lat. 26| to 27f and long. 142 15') 

 that called Peel's Island has several craters abounding in 

 sulphur and scorise, which do not appear to have been long 

 extinct (Perry, i, pp. 200 and 209). 



VI. ISLANDS OF SOUTHERN ASIA. 



We comprehend under this division Formosa (Tayvan), 

 the Philippines, the Sunda Islands and the Moluccas. Klap- 

 roth first made us acquainted with the volcanoes of Formosa 

 by information extracted from Chinese sjurces, which are 

 always so copious in 'their descriptions of nature. 06 They 



64 Compare Kaart van den Zuid-en Zuidwest-Kust van Japan door 

 F. von Siebold, 1851. 



Compare my Fragment de Geologie et de Climmologie Asiatiques, 

 t i, p. 82, which appeared immediately after my return from my 



