 | Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...hat been almost deserted. Pulo Penang is an island belonging to the British, in lat 5° 25' N. lying off the west coast of the Malay peninsula from which...narrow strait about two miles broad, which forms the harbor, and affords excellent anchorage for the largest ships. A settlement was begun in 1786, and... | |
 | Geography - 1825 - 704 pages
...Holland to New Guinea. PRINCE or WALES'* ISLAND, called aUo PrLo PINANG, or BETEL NUT ISLAND, an island off the west coast of the Malay peninsula, from which...narrow strait, about two miles broad, which forms tlie harbour, and affords excellent anchorage for the largest ships. There is also an inner harbour,... | |
 | William Milburn - Asia - 1825 - 646 pages
...displayed for ships approaching the island. Prince of Wales's Island is separated from the Malay Peninsula by a narrow strait about two miles broad, which forms...excellent anchorage for the largest ships : there is also an inner harbour, where ships may receive every kind of repair that can be performed without... | |
 | Walter Chapin - Gazetteers - 1825 - 458 pages
...people. PULO PENANG, that is, Be ttl-nut Island, called, also, Prince of Wales' Island, lying •ff W. coast of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait. It contains about 160 square iiiles, was transferred to the East India Company, in 1786, and has a... | |
 | Charles Williams - Geography - 1828 - 946 pages
...fruit. PULO PINANG, that is Betelnut Island, called also Prince of fTales's Island, lying off the W. coast of the Malay peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait. It contains about 100 square miles, was transferred to the East India Company, in 1786, and has a regular... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...N., and were so called by Vancouver. PRINCE or WALES'S, Puio PINASC, or BETEL NUT, ISLAND, an island off the west coast of the Malay peninsula, from which...affords excellent anchorage for the largest ships. There is also an inner harbour, where ships may receive all repairs that can be performed without going into... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 pages
...N., and were so called by Vancouver. PIIINCE OF WALES'S, PULO PINAKO, or HITEL NIT, ISLAND, an island off the west coast of the Malay peninsula, from which...it is separated by a narrow strait, about two miles broa<), which forms the harbour, and affords excellent anchorage for the largest ships. There is also... | |
 | British history - 1849 - 328 pages
...drowned, and the loss of the British was 2,383 troops,—1846. J The Prince of Wales' Island,—situated off the west coast of the Malay peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait, was purchased from the king of Queddah by the East India company,—1786. k Jealousy arising between... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Antarctica - 1853 - 534 pages
...India Company, in 1819. It is situated on the south side of a small island at the southern extremity of the Malay peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait, one quarter of a mile in width, in latitude 1° 17' N., and longitude 103° 51' E. In the centre of... | |
 | India - 1854 - 824 pages
...long. 83° 23'. SINGAPOEE.— An island situated in the Straits of Malacca, at the southern extremity of the Malay peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait, which, though not exceeding half a mile in breadth at some points, was formerly the channel of navigation... | |
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Singapore is an island about twenty-seven miles long by fourteen wide, with an area of 206 square miles, situated at the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait about three-quarters of a mile in width.... 
