Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Vol. 6 : A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Vol. 6: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People

Labua'n, a member of the Malayan Archi pelago, lies about thirty miles off the north-west coast of Borneo. It measures ten miles by five, and the latitude and lon 'tude of its centre are 5° 22' N and 115° 10 E. Mall as it is, it is peculiarly valuable. Besides possessing a good harbour, it contains an extensive bed of excellent coal, which is worked by a recently formed company of British capitalists; and having become, in 1846, a British possession, it bids fair, as well from its political connection as from its natural advantages, to be a nucleus of civilisation for the whole of the surround ing islands. Already it has been erected into a see of the Church of England.

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