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ISLAND LIFE 



PART II 



The whole group occupies a space of a,bout 300 by 200 

 miles. It consists of five large and twelve small islands ; 

 the largest (Albemarle Island) being about eighty miles 



MAP OF THE GALAPAGOS AND ADJACENT COASTS OF SOUTH AMERICA. 



The ligiit tint shows where the sea is less than 1,000 fathoms deep. 

 Tlie figures show the depth in fathoms. 



long and of very irregular shape, while the four next in 

 importance — Chatham, Indefatigable, James, and Nar- 

 borough Islands, are each about twenty-five or thirty miles 



