. The science of railways . racing, among others, Cuba, Jamaica,Haj^ti, and Poi-to Rico; the Bahamas, embracingabout seven hundred islands, and, finally, Icelandand Newfoundland. The groups of the Pacificare the Kuril Islands, form-ing a part of the JapaneseEmpire; the Aleutians, offthe extreme southwesterncoast of Alaska; Queen Char-lottes, which forms a portionof British Columbia; the Ha-w^aiian, or Sandwich Islands,in the line of commerce be-tween California and China;eight groups in the TorridZone, as follows: The Caro-liuas, comprising a great ar-chipelago; theLadrones; theNew Hebrides; t
. The science of railways . racing, among others, Cuba, Jamaica,Haj^ti, and Poi-to Rico; the Bahamas, embracingabout seven hundred islands, and, finally, Icelandand Newfoundland. The groups of the Pacificare the Kuril Islands, form-ing a part of the JapaneseEmpire; the Aleutians, offthe extreme southwesterncoast of Alaska; Queen Char-lottes, which forms a portionof British Columbia; the Ha-w^aiian, or Sandwich Islands,in the line of commerce be-tween California and China;eight groups in the TorridZone, as follows: The Caro-liuas, comprising a great ar-chipelago; theLadrones; theNew Hebrides; the Fiji Isl-ands; the Friendly Islands;the Society Islands; theMarquesas Islands; the NewZealand Islands, and, finally,the separate islands of NewGuinea (Papua) and Austra-lia, in the Southern the noted groups of the Indian Ocean arethe East Indies, embracing Borneo, Sumatra,Java, Celebes, Luzon, and many other islands offthe southeast coast of Asia; the Laccadive andMaldive group of coral islands; the Andaman. 368 CARRIA GE IN ISLANDS. group in the Bay of Bengal; the Nicobar Islandslying farther south. The large single islands inthe Indian Ocean are Madagascar, Mauritius,Bourbon, Socotra and Ceylon. In the Mediter-ranean Sea are the islands of Sicily and Sardi-nia, now included in the Italian kingdom; Cyprusand Malta, belonging to Great Britain; Rhodesand Crete, owned by the Ottoman Empire; Cor-sica, belonging to France; the Ionian group offthe coast of Greece and owned by that country,and, finally, the Balearic Isles, under Spanishrule.
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