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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III JAVA AND MADURA: PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY I. Their shape.?II. Their geological constitution and orographical aspect.?III. Streams and rivers of Java and Madura; their qualities as alluvial agents, and their insufficiency as waterways; their influence upon the coast-line and the harbours.? IV. The climate: its stability.?V. The Javanese flora.?VI. The Javanese fauna. Java and its annex, Madura, are in the form of a long quadrilateral, the area being 50,440 square miles, of which the axis is, in its eastern part, slightly inclined towards the north. By its situation in the centre of the Indian Ocean, which places even Sumatra and Borneo, two very much larger islands, in a certain position of dependence; by the richness of its soil, the abundance and variety of its flora and fauna, the activity, intelligence and civilisation of its inhabitants, and the beauty of its landscapes, Java remains the pearl of the Orient. Although in the matter of dimensions it holds only the fourth place, on the other hand it contains three-fourths of the population, and is responsible for four-fifths of the entire production of the Archipelago. Java has often been compared to its equatorial counterpart, Cuba, whose area, shape, and orientation are perceptibly like her own; but Java, by itself, is more thickly populated and more wealthy than Cuba and all Central America together. The long and methodical explorations of which Java has been the object for a space of several centuries have made it one of the best-known countries in the world. But although described by Valentyn, Marsden, Raffles, and Horsfield, the determination of its geological formation in a really scientific fashion was commenced only in 1820, or thereabouts, under the auspices of the Company of the Indies, and than...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459089341
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Edition: Abridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 240 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1459089340
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 126
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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