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THE MALAY ARCHIFEIAGO, 



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Mvva, Flores, the Serwatty Islands, Bancla, Amboyna, 

 Batchian, Makian, Tidore, Temate, and Gilolo, to Morty 

 Island. Hei-e there is a slight but well-marked break, or 

 shift, of about 200 miles to the westward, where the 

 volcanic belt again begins, in North Celebes, and pasaea 



THE BRtTiaH isum AND Bo^jito OS sc^i.i:. 



by Siau and Sanguir to the Philippine Islands, along the 

 eastern side of which it continues, in a curving line, to 

 their northern extremity. J'rom the extreme eastern bend 

 of this belt at Banda, we pass onwards for 1,000 miles 

 over a non-volcanic district to the volcanoes observed by 

 Dampier, in 1699, on the north-eastern coast of K&w 



