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C&rsoity Remarks on the island worneo > nmde during a Residence of nearly Three Years thereon . ; and during * Voyages made to different Places on it % and the neighbouring Islands . [ Referred to in Unitarian Fund Report , 1821 . See Vol . XVI . p . 740 J
EXTENT and geographical situation . — From Tanjong Salatan , . & . E . pt . lat . 4 ° IT South ; to Tanjoug Sampan-Mangis , N . pt . lat . 7 ° 20 North ; being in diameter , N . and . S ., 691 miles .
From Point Kaneeoongan , in Ion . 119 ° 10 ' East ; to Tanjong Apee , in ion . 108 ° 40 ' East ; being in diameter , East and West , 580 miles . . General appearance . —Two chains of mountains , the highest of which are granitic , beginning in the S . E . and S . W . corners of the island , and
running generally parallel to the coast , though at a considerable distance , and leaving an alluvial border , containing plains of great extent , and moderately elevated and undulating lands between it and the sea . The Eastern chain is
of regular appearance and moderate elevation , increasing as you proceed to the northward ; the Western chain begins in insulated hills , chiefly of the table appearance , though some few of a conical shape are to be seen amongst it , and it increases in height
and regularity of appearance on proceeding to the northward , where the two chains approximate to each other , in an arched form , leaving the vast mountain on the north coast , called Keeney-Balloo , as it were the key of iK
• __ _ the arch , or rather semi-circle > This mountain is visible at upwards of 100 miles' distance in clear weather , having myself seen it appearing of considerable height at 95 miles' distance * A little to the southward of this
mountain , the great river takes its rise , of which the river of Banjer Massin is the second branch in magnitude ; that called the Great Dyac River being of Sufficient , depth at its . entrance , and for upwards of 160 miles inland , to
admit skips of a&y size or burthen . This great river , cm reaching the level lands , divides into three large broaches , of which are what k called the Bivar of Banjer , Massin and that qf the <* reat and Little Dyacs , This npbie river , affording , access to the interior of
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this vast Island , is navi g able fiiUihMPge boats * nearly 500 miles firani £ f $ i mouth ^ xand were the countr |! rievefe to become populous and xjrviliiedV its importance would be enhanced j accordingl y * Besides this principal river there are numerous others fallki ^ into the sea all round its coasts ; some ^ f which , us the river of Poatiana on the
S . W ., and Borneo * IScoper oi > iliie N . W . coasts , both , and particularly the last , are much larger than the Thames . Some of the mountains on the N . W . coast are volcanic , but not of a violent description , and earthquakes are rarely felt , and never commit devastation in the manner
frequently effected in Java by them * Both hills and valleys are fully wooded ^ except where spotted by human cultivation . The vegetable productions are numerous and important , though the scantiness of the population renders them , as it were , useless to that population themselves , and also to their
neighbours . Among the valuable timber trees are the following : teak , mahogany , manchineel , iron wqod , ebony , lignum-vitae , black wood , greenheart , camphor , cedar , sassafras , binary , a wood nearly incorruptible in any possible situation , and resisting * the attacks of the teredo-navalis , or
sea worm , for many years . Many dye and . medicinal woods also are to be found in abundance ; and the botanical productions of the country will amply reward those who shall toe enabled to explore its treasures . The staple article of vegetable produce fojr exportation ,
is pepper , and after it are camphor , rattans , canes , frankincense , lignum * aloes , the excellent red dye , known in commerce by the name of dragon * s ^ blood , and which is ananufactured by boiling the seed-nuts of a peculiar species of rattan or cane . Sugar cane is large
and plentiful , but only reared for * the purpose of eating , or rather sucking , in its raw state by the natives . Sago is manufactured by them ,, but to little extent , although the palm abounds : an extensive and valuable < p ^ rl 4 iBheF $
existing on the north « ofcst , would fee of immense advantage , if the pirates were not to harass and capture the fishermen . Be . ps ? < wax ia an . article , of considerable export to China anijL Bengal . Th <* edible burifa nest is found in considerable quantities in the . t ^ si * verns of the mountaine , and i ^ pftte
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-tj&rsefc y * Remarks on the > MaH < f ) Borned . 4 &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/13/
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