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H I ST ORI CAL GEOGRA P H Y T H E B R I T I S H O L O N I ES V O V L . I A US TRA L A SI A PART I I A USTRAL ASI AN GEOGRAP H Y CH A PT ER I n om o r etu rn s i of i T h e histor cal portion this book began w th continents , ’ ‘ i — . n ds a t for continued with continental i , and end w h islets ( om/r ite i an d a o the large units had a more cont nuous port nt hist ry, ' e wi hout h. s tor or and the lesser units wer often y , without t oi h i r bi any other his ory than that t g neighbour. The a? t wil r geographical portions his boo. l p oceed in a reverse order ; the wayside fl! will be examined before the f s garden and the garden be ore the fore t, and a description of complex continents and continental islands will be pre m s ceded by a description of the si ple t islands of the Pacific. No description will be attempted except t hat which bears l upon history directly or indirect y. fi a 1 sim l e The simplest Paci c islands f ll into two classes, coral and ( ) p . s volcanic Coral i lands are usually seas surrounded by land , 0, r at atol l s which is again sur ounded by sea, and are called atolls, andfl , t he atoll is the flat top of an in visible mountain . Thus s vou. v1 ( ) a A US TRA L A SI A crrAP. u E m — r 6 ooo f F nafuti ( ) is a ountain whose oval base , eet — 0 2 8 - under the sea is 3 miles by , whose basin like summit — — is a pool of still sea 1 3 miles by t o surroun ded by an 2 0 t m inner rim never more than feet above, and some i es a - rim m r few feet below sea level, and by an outer of sub e ged mi r m of reef. Co ng f o the sea the rims look like tiaras m r silver inlaid with e e ald, for the eye only sees white r u - u breake s and white coral sand surmo nted by coco n ts . The coral is an animal or rather a multitude of animals which live and weave their winding sheets of lime between the surface of the sea and sea depths less than goo feet m deep ; therefore it is asked, how can they have raised oun tains as high as Mont Blanc unless the sea- floor has been ‘ sinking, like a lift , while they have been rising on step ’ ping- stones of their dead selves to higher things ? The answers to this question do not concern us ; we are only concerned with the visible interrupted marg in on which m m r die en live.