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or Prince of Wales Island, at | jo. northern entrance of the Straits of},» cca, and near the Malay Peninsula, |,,; an area of about 106 square miles. | },4, sonnected for Governmental purposes Spi weer Province, on the opposite | ¢p, land. e climate is hot, but! Bn by, sea breezes abounding. Penang) pir, e centre for the trade of the whole | gn. y Peninsula, the total year’s trade) mn. unting, Say and exports together, | pn. bout £30,000,000. Tin, pepper, rice} por —_ are the chief exports; manu-} m4 goods the chief imports. George- | ¢, " the capital, has a population of} on, it 130,000. the SNA’TES (a-tes), the household or} Jol estic gods of the Romans, both those! We nging to the family and to the State | (18 ter and Juno, as the guardians of} an © and happine , and Vesta, as the| Th dian of domestic union and comfort, | hu: } the chief Penates. The state Penates | at said to have been brought from Troy | tac Eneas, Ba [s. 238]