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... has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious organisations of the Muhammedan world which are one of the great forces with which Europe and the East have to reckon to-day....

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...acter. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of he- roes, and then proceeded to create t... ...t first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of he- roes, and then proceeded to create the vast ... ...comparison is made between the ethics of the Koran and the moral tenets of Arabian and other forms of heathenism which it supplanted. The method follo... ...istian and Jewish traditions of the time; and it is, besides some original Arabian legends, to those only that the book stands in any close relationsh... ...d of Ohod–the coalition formed against Muhammad by the Jews and idolatrous Arabians, issuing in the siege of Medina, Hej. 5 (A.D. 627)–the con- ventio... ...Katib). It is composed entirely of tra- ditions. T abari, “the Livy of the Arabians” (Gibbon, 51, n. 1), who died at Baghdad A.H. 310, composed annals... ... extensively influenced the religious creed of all the Jews of the Arabian peninsula. In one passage, 8 Muhammad speaks of an indi- vidual Jew–perhap... ...It is due to the Koran, that the occupants in the sixth century of an arid peninsula, whose poverty was only equalled by their ignorance, become not o...

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...But I cannot decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehensible.” ... ...our course was directed to the north-west in the direc- tion of the Indian Peninsula. From Keeling Island our course was slower and more variable, oft... ...ng the island of Ceylon, the pearl which hangs from the lobe of the Indian Peninsula. Captain Nemo and his second appeared at this moment. The Captain... ...N.N.E., in the direction of the Sea of Oman, between Arabia and the Indian Peninsula, which serves as an outlet to the Persian Gulf. It was evidently ... ...lus soon sank under the waves of that part of the sea. We passed along the Arabian coast of Mahrah and Hadramaut, for a distance of six miles, its und... ...it is very dangerous during the Etesian winds and in the rainy season. The Arabian Edrisi portrays it under the name of the Gulf of Colzoum, and relat... ...ch a passage exists?” “Yes; a subterranean passage, which I have named the Arabian Tunnel. It takes us beneath Suez and opens into the Gulf of Pelusiu... ...entured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel!” 160 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea CHAPTER V THE ARABIAN TU... ...ncent was dimly to be seen, forming the south-western point of the Spanish peninsula. A strong southerly gale was blowing. The sea was swollen and bil...

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...even in modern times, Niebuhr found it the or- dinary costume of the lower Arabians in Hedsjas; and Shaw assures us, that from its commodious shape, i... ...that from its commodious shape, it is still a favor- ite dishabille of the Arabian women when they are behind the curtains of the tent. From this earl... ...and it naturally happened, that, with their lively fancies, some Hebrew or Arabian girl should be prompted to repeat, on her own person, what had so o... ...ter- most row of the Oriental necklace. Philo of Alexandria, and the other Arabian poets, give us some idea of the importance attached by the women of... ...icion of this hybrid mixture. Vast deserts, which insulate one side of the Arabian peninsula; the sea, which insulates the other sides, have, with oth... ... this hybrid mixture. Vast deserts, which insulate one side of the Arabian peninsula; the sea, which insulates the other sides, have, with other cause...

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...from him named Theseis. The Abantes first used it, not in imitation of the Arabians, as some imagine, nor of the Mysians, but be- cause they were a wa... ...vigor to the cities, but also by belting the neck of land, which joins the peninsula to the continent, with bulwarks and forts from sea to sea, he put... ...emy, he named his son by Antigone, Ptolemy, and having built a city in the peninsula of Epirus, called it Berenicis. From this time he began to revolv... ...o marched to Tigranes, and Sextilius, also, to disperse a great company of Arabians then on the way to the king. Sextilius fell upon the Arabians in t... ...Medes and Adiabenians, under their respective kings, joined him; when many Arabians came up from the sea be- yond Babylon; and from the Caspian sea, t... ...e help of arms, succeeded in reducing the barbarians. For the kings of the Arabians came to him, tendering what they had, and with them the Sophenians... ...s Media, and making the South and Red Sea his own through the kings of the Arabians. He shattered the power of the kings, and narrowly missed their pe... ...ass fur- ther, he found he was walled in, and no more was to be had in the peninsula, taking the opportunity of a snowy, stormy night, he filled up pa...

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...e revolt of Barcelona. The king (Don Carlos) has not left Bourges, and the peninsula is in the enjoyment of profound peace. A telegraphic signal, impr... ...of the best riders in France, and M. Debray, who both mount the minister’s Arabians; and close on their heels are the horses of Ma- dame Danglars, who... ...t was an Oriental feast that he offered to them, but of such a kind as the Arabian fairies might be supposed to prepare. Every delicious fruit that th... ... “Count,” added Mercedes with a supplicating glance, “there is a beautiful Arabian custom, which makes eternal friends of those who have together eate... ...ught for Albert. Monte Cristo and Haidee took the beverage in the original Arabian manner, that is to say, without sugar. Haidee took the porcelain cu... ...s pistols and carbine, and Ali, stand- ing near him, held one of the small Arabian hatchets, whose form has not varied since the Crusades. Through one...

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... by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO CAPTAIN SAMUEL LEWIS, OF THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY’S SERVICE. My Dear Lewis, ... ...onversation naturally fell upon the tour Mr. James was about to take. The Peninsular and Oriental Company had arranged an excursion in the Medi- terr... ... to crown all, said he had no doubt that his friends, the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, would make Mr. Titmarsh the present of a ... ...-shells, sufficient, one would think, to blow 29 Thackeray away the whole peninsula. The horticultural and military mix- ture is indeed very queer:he... ...of a sensation. If they love the odd and pictur- esque, if they loved the “Arabian Nights” in their youth, let them book themselves on board one of th... ...that poor little blubbering Mahometan:he will never be able to relish the “Arabian Nights” in the original, all his life long. From this scene we rush... ...ehemet Ali?And which is best, to broil or to fry?If it be but to read the “Arabian Nights” again on getting home, it is good to have made this little ... ... the plain beyond, and that was another famous and brilliant scene of the “Arabian Nights. ”The heaven shone 96 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to G... ... unintelligible Turkish flourish painted on the stern, and the long-tailed Arabian hi- eroglyphics gilt on the paddle-boxes. Our dear friend and com- ...

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...F ANAHO AND HATIHEU are divided at their roots by the knife-edge of a single hill—the pass so often men- tioned; but this isthmus expands to the seawa... ...island life, social or international; but I never heard of any banquet—the child’s presence at the daily board per- haps sufficing. We may find the ra... ... lateen, the sole thing moving. The canal is formed on the south by a pier or causeway with a parapet. At the far end the parapet stops, and the quay ... ...fermentation quickens and grows acid; in twelve hours it will be yeast for bread, in two days more a devilish intoxicant, the coun- sellor of crime. T... ...n their open houses; there was no sound of intercourse or business. In that hour before the shadows, the quarter of the palace and canal seemed like a... ...as the leaves were 235 Robert Louis Stevenson consumed the ashes were buried, the green spray was im- bedded in the gravel, and the ceremony was at a...

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...s learning outpost duty in the Austrian frontier cavalry. He served in the Peninsula, served in Canada, served in India, volunteered for any chance of... ... by name—Colonel Sidney Weyburn. You lost him at T oulouse. We were in the Peninsula; I was at Talavera with him. Bad day for our cavalry.” “Our offic... ...eck —the outline of the coast of Portugal for an introductory subject, our Peninsular battles and so forth—I spoke of her enthusiasm. The effect was, ... ...riod original or unknown ideas were a smoking brimstone to the nose, dread Arabian afrites, invisible in the air, jumping out of vases, armed for the ... ...n (a wounded British officer is amiably nursed in a castle near the famous Peninsula battlefield, etc.), running wild down the streets of Seville, is ... ...A powerful wing of imagination, strong as the flappers of the great Roc of Arabian story, is needed to lift the known physical woman even a very littl... ...les; and passed to high eulogy of our Hanoverian auxiliary troopers in the Peninsula; ‘good husbands,’ he named them quaintly, speaking of their man- ...

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...ias nor the family, but had remained unpossessed like the treasures of the Arabian Nights, which slept in the bosom of the earth under the eyes of the... ...c and mysterious word which opened the splendid caverns of Ali Baba to the Arabian fisherman. All was useless, the treasure disappeared, and had again... ...ened by a key, but a magic word.” “Decidedly,” muttered Franz, “this is an Arabian Nights’ adven- ture.” “His excellency waits for you,” said a voice,... ...ers of gold. In a recess was a kind of divan, sur- mounted with a stand of Arabian swords in silver scabbards, and the handles resplendent with gems; ... ...thing to complain of, for what I see makes me think of the wonders of the ‘Arabian Nights.’” “Alas, I may say with Lucullus, if I could have anticipat... ...that we shall pass into a state of immobility, and then the affairs of the Peninsula will completely consolidate us.” “Ah, true; you drive Don Carlos ...

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...end. She had a vivid imagination; she had, besides, 23 Thackeray read the Arabian Nights and Guthrie’s Geography; and it is a fact that while she was... ...red the pepper which the Princess of Persia puts in the cream-tarts in the Arabian Nights. Do you put cay- enne into your cream-tarts in India, sir?” ... ...ying under a tree in the playground, spelling over a favourite copy of the Arabian Nights which he had apart from the rest of the school, who were pur... ...regiment, whilst so many of his gallant comrades were reaping glory in the Peninsula. He had arrived with a knock so very timid and quiet that it was ... ...d for, to show their comrades in arms that they could fight as well as the Peninsular veterans, and that all the pluck and valour of the —th had not b... ...hree weeks are over, and will give the Duke such a dance as shall make the Peninsula appear mere child’s play. But you need not say that to Mrs. Osbor...

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.... No Eden of lakes and forest lawns, such as the mirage suddenly evokes in Arabian sands,— no pageant of air-built battlements and towers, that ever b... ... also as a separate world itself; part of a continent, but also a distinct peninsula. Most of what he has, the grown-up man inherits from his infant s... ...ese I had shared with my sister Elizabeth. The first was derived from the “Arabian Nights.” Mrs. Barbauld, a lady now very nearly forgotten, 4 then f... ...-known woman, having occassion, in the days of her glory, to speak of the “Arabian Nights,” insisted on Aladdin, and secondly, on Sinbad, as the two j... ...neous chambers. 6 The reader will not understand me as attributing to the Arabian originator of Aladdin all the sentiment of the case as I have endea... ...here are other sublimities 118 Thomas de Quincey (some, at least) in the “Arabian Nights,” which first become such—a gas that first kindles—when ente... ...ething of that rank which the golden milestone of Rome held in the Italian peninsula. At Birmingham it was (which I, like myriads beside, had traverse...

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...e course of the campaign; and to him suc- ceeded, as prætorian prefect, an Arabian officer, called Philip. The innocent boy, left without friends, was... ...ccurred in his second year. Another circum- stance gives importance to the Arabian, that, according to one tradition, he was the first Christian emper... ...re not even emperors of the West,—but had a limited kingdom in the Italian peninsula. Valentinian the Third was, as we have said, the last emperor of ...

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...t to the right, like the Europeans, nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up to down, like the Chinese, but aslant, from one cor... ...erica, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance. The kingdom is a peninsula, terminated to the north east by a ridge of mountains thirty m...

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...stuck into great silver stirrups. He might have ridden straight out of the Arabian nights. He passed thoughtfully, picking his way delicately among th... ...ch will be followed no doubt by the punitive procedure usual in the Balkan peninsula. For my third instance I would step from a matter as small as thr...

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... the Nibelungenlied. The dragon legend probably originated in the Cimbrian peninsula, where the “Beowulf” saga, in which the dragon fight plays such a... ...ill beseem all doughty knights at high festal tides. From out a setting of Arabian gold there shone forth many a stone. The ladies’ zeal, it was not s... ...rought quilt from Arras (1) of shining silken cloth and many a coverlet of Arabian silk, the best that might be had; upon this ran a border that shone...

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...to Copsley to introduce her husband. They had run over Italy: ‘the Italian Peninsula,’ she quoted him in a letter to Lady Dunstane: and were furnishin... ...’ said Arthur. ‘Let ‘s hear,’ quoth Sullivan Smith; proceeding: ‘She’s the Arabian Nights in person, that’s sure; and Shakespeare’s Plays, tragic and ... ...o hope of coming back to light, other than by tail of lynx, like the great Arabian sea- man, at the last page of the final chapter. A prospectively po...

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...not less than a million to the T reasury, is chiefly managed at Croisic, a peninsular village which communicates with Guerande over quicksands, which ... ...e mainland from the island of Croisic. Geographically, Croisic is really a peninsula; but as it holds to Brittany only by the beaches which connect it... ...e portrait I am making of her, like that prince, I forget his name, in the Arabian Nights. Y ou would be too late, my dear boy.” 79 Beatrix These wor... ...t a distance of some two hundred steps between himself and his master. The peninsula of Croisic is flanked on the sea side by gran- ite rocks the shap...

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...end. She had a vivid imagination; she had, besides, 23 Thackeray read the Arabian Nights and Guthrie’s Geography; and it is a fact that while she was... ...red the pepper which the Princess of Persia puts in the cream-tarts in the Arabian Nights. Do you put cay- enne into your cream-tarts in India, sir?” ... ...ying under a tree in the playground, spelling over a favourite copy of the Arabian Nights which he had apart from the rest of the school, who were pur... ...regiment, whilst so many of his gallant comrades were reaping glory in the Peninsula. He had arrived with a knock so very timid and quiet that it was ... ...d for, to show their comrades in arms that they could fight as well as the Peninsular veterans, and that all the pluck and valour of the —th had not b... ...hree weeks are over, and will give the Duke such a dance as shall make the Peninsula appear mere child’s play. But you need not say that to Mrs. Osbor... ... who know the present Sir George Tufto would hardly recognise the dar- ing Peninsular and W aterloo officer. He has thick curling brown hair and black...

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...of life. When I sit down and try to make her a girl again, I feel like the Arabian fisherman who tried to put the genius back into the pot from which ... ... ralysis, better fire and sword than futility. Our flag is spread over the peninsula, without plans, without intentions—a vast 250 The New Machiavell...

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... dying statue fair and wan, If tears should cease, to weep again: And rare Arabian odours came, Through the myrtle copses steaming thence ... ...4 pages 40-41] from a proof copy of Hellas in his possession.] The Spanish Peninsula is already free. France is tranquil in the enjoyment of a partial... ...o obtain liberty, early in 1821 the Austrians poured their armies into the Peninsula: at first their coming rather seemed to add energy and resolution...

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...patch of blue mist floats lightly on the glare of the horizon. This is the peninsula of Azuera, a wild chaos of sharp rocks and stony levels cut about... ...o chop their way with machetes through the thorny scrub on the neck of the peninsula. On the second evening an upright spiral of smoke (it could only ... ...s, which had lent to his father’s correspondence the flavour of a gruesome Arabian Nights tale. In the end, the growing youth attained to as close an ...

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...spelling), who little thought, when their gallant fathers waged war in the Peninsula, that they would ever have to appeal to those whom Providence, in... ...y have a house out of the T ales of the Genii, and give dinners out of the Arabian Nights. Curious to see ‘em, my dear? Say you’ll know ‘em. Come and ... ..., and if samples of the fishes of divers colours that made a speech in the Arabian Nights (quite a ministerial explanation in respect of cloudi- ness)...

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... service, knew no bounds. I am told that he did all sorts of things in the Peninsula, with every description of fire-arm; and in the East and West Ind... ...t could not; and it only so far fol- lowed the example of the smoke in the Arabian story, as to roll out in a thick cloud, and there hang and hover. B...

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... service, knew no bounds. I am told that he did all sorts of things in the Peninsula, with every description of fire-arm; and in the East and West Ind... ...t could not; and it only so far fol- lowed the example of the smoke in the Arabian story, as to roll out in a thick cloud, and there hang and hover. B... ...ved there. Especially, there is a gentleman, 824 Dombey & Son of a Mosaic Arabian cast of countenance, with a very massive watch-guard, who whistles ...

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...orth, from the God, the sage, and the hero, From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands, Long having wander’d since, round the e... ...ountains of the Moon, and the Red mountains of Madagascar, I see the Lybian, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts, I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic ic... ...r strait of the globe has run through, I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence: What cities the... ...OK X OUR O LD F EUILLAGE Always our old feuillage! Always Florida’s green peninsula—always the priceless delta of ouisiana—always the cotton fields... ...et, from the four winding and far flowing rivers of China, From the southern peninsulas and the demi continental islands, from Malaysia, These and wha...

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... strongest among the Arabs.What happened then—the spread of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and even into E... ...st among the Arabs.What happened then—the spread of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and even into Europe wi... ... a senior figure among Islamist extremists, especially those in Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. Still, he wa... ...r figure among Islamist extremists, especially those in Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. Still, he was just o... ...to attack a U.S. target in Saudi Arabia, and had shipped explosives to the peninsula for this purpose. Some of Bin Ladin’s associates later took credi... ...lt the “premise kept shifting.” 45 Later on August 20, Navy vessels in the Arabian Sea fired their cruise mis- siles.Though most of them hit their int... ... missiles. Vessels with T om- ahawk cruise missiles were on station in the Arabian Sea, and could fire within a few hours of receiving target data. 11... ...nearby basing options limited, an alternative was to fly from ships in the Arabian Sea or from land bases in the Persian Gulf, as was done after 9/11.... ...e Cole bombing and the eventual head of al Qaeda operations in the Arabian Peninsula—appears to have originally been recruited to his career as a terr...

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...e of the vizier’s daughter, Scheherazade, as that fate is depicted in the “Arabian Nights”; and that the denouement there given, if not altogether ina... ...ape, as did the vapor from the bottle out of which arose the genius in the Arabian Nights. But out of this our cloud upon the precipice’s edge, there ... ...ful, although infinitely less ma- jestic, filled the valley with more than Arabian perfumes. The general floor of the amphitheatre was grass of the sa... ...e stream, sweeping backward, made an almost circular loop, so as to form a peninsula which was very nearly an island, and which included about the six... ...arly an island, and which included about the sixteenth of an acre. On this peninsula stood a dwelling-house—and when I say that this house, like the i...

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...ited, but the black- 96 Howards End birds that he was chasing glowed with Arabian dark- ness, for all the conventional colouring of life had been alt... ...w them with its church, its radi- ating houses, its castle, its river-girt peninsula. Close to the castle was a grey mansion unintellectual but kindly... ... mansion unintellectual but kindly, stretching with its grounds across the peninsula’s neck—the sort of mansion that was built 206 Howards End all ov... ...h hills. 211 EM Forster CHAPTER XXVI NEXT MORNING a fine mist covered the peninsula. The weather promised well, and the outline of the castle mound g... ...bles of the George. There was the bridge, and the river nibbling its green peninsula. She could even see the bathing-shed, but while she was looking f...

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...procured a black Pa- dre for a guide, and a Spaniard who had served in the Peninsular war as an interpreter, we visited a collection of buildings, of ... ...neck of land which joins the 211 Charles Darwin Rincon del Tor (the great peninsula at the S. W. ex- tremity) to the rest o the island. From the grea... ... the neck of land at the hea of Choiseul Sound, which forms the south-west peninsula The valley was pretty well sheltered from the cold wind but there... ...tive Indians — Castro — Tame Fox — Ascend San Pedro — Chonos Archipelago — Peninsula of Tres Montes — Granitic Range — Boat-wrecked Sailors — Low’s Ha... ...oe, and the broken land called the Chonos Archipelago, as far south as the Peninsula of Tres Montes. On the 21st we anchored in the bay of S. Carlos, ... ...ories of the illimitable ocean. A tedious waste, a desert of water, as the Arabian calls it. No doubt there are some delightful scenes. A moonlight ni...

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...izing, waiting—an immense Free-Masonry. Once this world-spread band was an Arabian clan—a little nation alone and outlying amongst the mighty monarchi... ...night and squire: the knight gracefully cantering an elegant cream-colored Arabian of prodigious power—the squire mounted on an unpretending gray cob;... ...ay Christendom suffered a defeat so signal, that it was feared the Spanish peninsula would be entirely wrested away from the dominion of the Cross. On... ... gratitude as of their other obligations, and that writes histories of the Peninsular war with the Emperor Napoleon, without making the slightest ment... ...- mand of their King Aboo Abdallah Mahommed, son of Y akoobal-Mansoor. The Arabian historian El Makary gives a full account of the military precaution...

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...and even the pure offspring subsequently produced from the mare by a black Arabian sire, were much more 153 Charles Darwin plainly barred across the ... ...l South America, in Tierra del Fuego, at the Cape of Good Hope, and in the peninsula of India. For at these distant points, the organic remains in cer... ...rts of Africa. On the Himalaya, and on the isolated mountain-ranges of the peninsula of India, on the heights of Ceylon, and on the volcanic cones of ... ... tralian forms, as I hear from Dr. Hooker, extend along the heights of the peninsula of Malacca, and are thinly scattered, on the one hand over India ...