The "Daily Times" says :-" A little geographical information about the Fiji Islands will not be amiss at the present time. We may therefore inform our readers that they consist of about 200 islands, having an" area of about 700 square miles, or nearly 4,500,000 acres. Two of the islands (Viti Levu anr Vanna Levu) have each a circumference of 250 miles. There are several others of smaller but still considerable extent ; . but tho greater number are mere islets, rising abruptly from the ocean ; and, with tho exception of some tracts on the two larger islands,but little level land, is anywhere, to be seen. The native population in 3860, was estimated about 200,000."
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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 33, 26 September 1868, Page 3
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