Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champa; Vol. II: Suvarnadvipa) v2.c13.20

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The Archipelago is eminently a mountainous region and a volcanic band passes through it “in a sweeping curve five thousand miles long, marked by scores of active and hundreds of extinct craters. It runs through Sumatra and Java, and thence through the islands of Bali, Lombok, Flores to Timor, curving north through the Moluccas, and again north, from the end of Celebes through the whole line of the Philippines. The zone is narrow; and on either side the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Celebes, and New Guinea have no known volcanoes, and are apparently not subject to serious disturbances.”¹