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Excerpt from Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F. R. S., &C., Particularly in the Government of Java, 1811-1816, Bencoolen and Its Dependencies, 1817-1824, Vol. 2 of 2: With Details of the Commerce and Resources of the Eastern Archipelago, and Selections From His Correspondence Contents. - Introduction. Geographical and geological outline of the Archipelago. - Ditto of J am, with plates. - Ditto of Sumatra, with ditto; and journey to Menangkahu. - Banca, with map and abstract memoir; principal vegetable productions, and their distribution and localities. - Fauna Malayana - Larger animals, &c.; distribution and account of, generally, as introductory to the descriptive catalog as. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.