. The earth and its inhabitants .. . surrounding coastlines. Some of the islands scattered over the oceanic hemi- sphere of the globe are even so extensive that they have been regarded either as the remains of a past or else the first corner-stones of a future continent. Mada- gascar, the Comoros, and the Seychelles have been treated by many naturalists as the surviving fragments of a vanished world, which from a typical branch of its now dispersed fauna has received the name of " ; In the great Pacific Ocean farther east, thousands of islands, cone-shaped or disposed in circ
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . surrounding coastlines. Some of the islands scattered over the oceanic hemi- sphere of the globe are even so extensive that they have been regarded either as the remains of a past or else the first corner-stones of a future continent. Mada- gascar, the Comoros, and the Seychelles have been treated by many naturalists as the surviving fragments of a vanished world, which from a typical branch of its now dispersed fauna has received the name of " ; In the great Pacific Ocean farther east, thousands of islands, cone-shaped or disposed in circular groups, seem to form part either of a submerged continent or of a new world in process of formation. The insular region which stretches south-east of Indo-China from
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