AND GEOLOGY OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
markable portions of the coast is the western coast of what we have 
termed the Lands End of Asia.* Here, for 160 miles from Pulo 
Lumat to Tanjong Burn in latitude 1° 14’ N. (the extreme southern 
point of the continent of Asia,) its jutting points and indenting bays 
are disposed along a straight line approaching nearly to S. E. by E. 
and thus diverging 24° to the eastward of what we have considered 
the general Peninsular direction. 
A slight deviation of 2° E. from this direction (or 149° of the 
circle) will give the sides of a parallelogram 82 geographical miles 
in breadth, extending 540 miles throughout its whole length, and in¬ 
cluding the maximum of land thaf can be embraced by a regular fi¬ 
gure of four sides, or 44,280 square miles. Nothing can better shew 
the essential regularity of the Peninsular form, and the correctness 
of the direction indicated, than the fact that the bulging portions on 
the east and west sides are themselves very elongated, nowhere of 
greater breadth than 50 miles, while generally much less, and alto¬ 
gether occupy about 17*280 square miles. The surface of the Penin¬ 
sula is thus about 61,560 square miles. If to this the Isthmus, which 
has a superficies af about 21,600 miles, be added, the entire area of 
the Malay Peninsula, in its widest sense, will be about 83,000 square 
geographical miles. 
The western coast of the Peninsula is remarkable for the great 
number of islets of various sizes which skirt it. A broad and almost 
uninterrupted belt of these extends along all the western side of the 
Isthmus, and is continued as far as Pinang, although an interval be¬ 
tween it and the Lankawi group contains only a few. The rest of 
the western coast and the greater part of the eastern are more thinly 
sprinkled with islands. But there are several extensive groups of 
islands, some of them remarkably bold and imposing, along the latter 
coast, such as the eastern Johore Archipelago, and the Redang islands 
The concave southern coast half embraces the island of Singapore, 
and an Archipelago of several hundreds of islets stretching to the S. 
E. by S. from the termination of the continent to Banka and Billi¬ 
ton, marks that the Peninsular zone has not yet wholly sunk bc- 
Journal ind. Arch. Vol i.p, 241. 
