AREA OF THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO AND OF THE 
ISLANDS CLAIMED BY THE NETHERLANDS. 
The following 1 Tables, shewing 1 the entire area of the islands of the 
Indian Archipelago and that of the islands and parts of islands con¬ 
sidered by the Dutch to belong to them, are taken from the tc Mo- 
niteur des Indes-Orientales et Occidentals,” a periodical published 
in Holland and ably edited by Baron Melvill van Carnbee, an officer 
In the Netherlands Indian service, who was engaged, during several 
years, in surveys in the Archipelago. It will be observed from Ta¬ 
ble II. that five-sixths of the whole Archipelago are regarded as 
Dutch possessions, and that amongst them are included all Suma¬ 
tra, with the exception of Acheen and Siak, three-fourths of Bor¬ 
neo, that is the whole island with the exception of the N. E. Pe¬ 
ninsula and a narrow band along the N. W. coast terminating at T. 
Datu, tbe whole of Celebes, Bali, Lombok, &c. As this is the first 
distinct statement which we have seen of the territories at present 
claimed by Holland, and as it amounts to an assertion of the domini¬ 
on of the whole Archipelago with the exception of one-sixth part, w T e 
consider these Tables of great importance. It would be interest¬ 
ing to know whether the British Government is in possession of co¬ 
pies of all the treaties and acts of cession on which the right to all 
the parts of this magnificent colonial empire that have been acquired 
since 1824 is based. 
Table 1. 
Superficies of the Indian Archipelago. 
Names. 
Square 
geograph. 
leagues. 
Square 
Myriame- 
tres. 
Square 
Geograph. 
leagues. 
Square 
Myriame- 
tres. 
Sumatra, 
* 
8035, 0 
4403, 3 
/ 
Pulo Babi,. 
30, 0 
16, 5 
\ 
t Pulo NiflSj •• * • t* 
75, 0 
41, 1 
Islands along 
jPuloMintao or Siberu, 
30, 0 
16, 5 
theeas 1 coasts 
' P ora islands. 
75, 0 
41, 1 
of Sumatra. 
)Poggi „ ** *• 
35, 0 
19, 2 
j 
f The Enganos and other 
v small islands, .. 
25, 0 
13, 7 
270, 0 
148, 1 
JAVA,.. .. 
2313, 0 
1269, 1 
97, 3 
53, 4 
