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which emphasis requires to be put in connection with the remark is 
that this striking “ similarity, nay rather identity, of the shore vegeta¬ 
tion ” is due less, as Mr. Kurz appears to imply, to the general connec¬ 
tion that subsists between the Andamans as a whole and Burma- 
Malaya as a whole than to a special connection that subsists between 
Diamond Island as the first segment, and the Andamans as the contin¬ 
uation of a special geographical district whereof both are membra 
disjecta —a connection quite as strikingly exhibited in these features 
wherein they together differ from Burma and Malaya as in the features 
wherein they alike agree with those two areas. 
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