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154 ANTILLIA AND THE ANTILLES that of northern Portugal. As Humboldt says, it is about a third as wide as it is long; and in this respect it is singularly even throughout its length. In its eastern front there are four bays, and three in its western. The intervals on each side are pretty nearly equal, and each bay is of a three-lobed form resembling an ill-divided clover leaf. In the lower end there is a broader and larger bay nearly triangular. The artificial exactness of these minute details is in keeping with the treatment on divers maps of the really well-known islands of the eastern Atlantic archipela- goes, except that the comparative small ness of a Teneriffe, a Terceira, or even a Madeira, offered less opportunity. The slant of the island is very slightly east of north, obviously quite dif- ferent from the actual longitudinal direction of the even more elongated Queen of the Antilles. REYLLA Behind the lower part of Antillia, much as Jamaica is behind the eastern or lower part of Cuba, and about in similar propor- tions of relative area, Beccario shows a smaller but, nevertheless, considerable island, pentagonal in outline, mainly square in body, with a low westward-pointing broad-based triangular ex- tension. He gives it the impressive name of Reylla, King Island, not ill suited to the royal beauty of that mountainous gem of the seas. SALVAGIO North of Antillia and nearly in line with it, but at a rather wide interval, he shows Saluagio or Salvagio ("u" and "v" being equiva- lent), which has the same name then long given to a wild and rocky cluster of islets between Madeira and the Canaries, that still bears it in the form Salvages. Wherever applied the name is bound to denote some form of savageness; perhaps "Savage Is- land" is an adequate rendering, the second word being under- stood. This Salvagio imitates the general form of Antillia on a reduced scale, being, nevertheless, much larger than any other island in the Atlantic south of the parallel of Ireland. Like