Java, Sumatra and the other islands of the Dutch East Indies (1914) (14577246677)

Identifier: javasumatraother00caba (find matches)
Title: Java, Sumatra and the other islands of the Dutch East Indies
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cabaton, Antoine, b. 1863 Miall, Bernard, 1876-
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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in short, is composed of four peninsulas,connected by means of narrow tracts of land and dividedby the Bay of Boni on the south, the Bay of Tolo on theeast, and the Bay of Tomini on the south-east. II. Celebes is traversed from south to north by a rangeof volcanic mountains; that range which connects thewhole East Indian system with the system of Mindanaoand the Philippines, by means of a host of scattered isletsof granite, which rise from a profoundly deep sea. Thislong chain pushes out a subsidiary range along thepeninsula dividing the Bays of Tomini and Boni. Thenorthern portion of the island is the more mountainous,although the isolated peaks are not so high ; thus GunungKalabat, at the northern extremity of the range, attains aheight of 6,560 feet only, while Lompo Batang in theextreme south attains a height of 10,000 feet. Althoughthe mountains of Celebes have proved their volcanicorigin by frequent earthquakes, no active volcanoes havebeen observed in either Celebes or Borneo.
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ma::^ket at Celebes.