Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BORNEO. This island, the largest in the world, is situated to the north of Java, between Sumatra and Celebes, extends from 7° north latitude to 5° south, and oc- cupies about eight degrees of longitude 4 being nearly 800 miles in length and 550 in breadth. The coasts alene of this immense is- land are at all known, Europeans having as yet penetrated but a few miles up the rivers into the interior. The inha- bitants of the coast purposely endea- voured to deter voyagers from exploring the inland country ; and Beekman, who