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Title: A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation
Year: 1806 (1800s)
Authors: Barrow, John, Sir, 1764-1848
Subjects: Voyages and travels Tswana (African people)
Publisher: London, T. Cadell and W. Davies
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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rth Island and Batavia, along the northern coast of.Java. The distance is about ninety miles; the sea is rarelyruffled •\\ith a gust of Avind, but is smooth as the serpentineriver in Hvde Park ; and the crowd of little islands rising out, of its surface is so immensely great, that even the indefati-oal)le )3utch, who are accustomed to deal in detail, despair-iuo- in this instance of being able to assign to each a distinctjtauie, have given to the whole groupe the general appella-tion of the Thousand Islands. Every one of these,numerousislets is completely clothed Avith an unvarying tint of themore lively verdure; and though their surfaces are tiat andlittle elevated alx)ve that of the sea, yet the tall trees AvhichivjoAV on most of them appear, from a distance, just like somany fleets of ships. Some of them are skirted by smoothsandy beaches, Avhere turtles in abundance resort; but onthe oreater part, the branches and the roots of the treesstrike into the salt Avater. ii ^. f> I
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THE STRAIT OF SUNDA. 165 The. whole groupe of the Thousand Islands^ and indeed thegreater part of all those whose surfaces are flat in the neigh-bourhood of the equator, owe their origin to the labours ofthat order of marine worms which Linnaeus has arrangedunder the name of Zoophyta. These little animals, in a mostsurprizing manner, construct their calcareous habitations un-der an infinite variety of forms, yet with that order andregularity, each after its own manner, which, to the minuteinquirer, is so discernible in every part of the creation. Butalthough the eye may be convinced of the fact, it is difficultfor the human mind to conceive the possibility of insects sosmall being endued with the power, much less of being fur-nished in their own bodies Avith the materials, of constructino-the immense fabri?, which, in almost every part of theEastern and Pacific oceans lying between the tropics, are metwith in the shape of detached rocks, .or reefs of great extentjust even with the sur

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