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 CHAP. IV. ARCHITECTURE OF JAVA 445 chapters in the History of Indian Architecture. To do it justice, however, it would require at least 100 illustrations and 200 pages of text, which would swell this work beyond the dimensions within which it seems at present expedient to restrict it. We know all we want, or are ever likely to know, about Boro- Budur and one or two other monuments, but with regard to many of the others our information is as yet fragmentary, and in respect to some, deficient. Any qualified person might, by a six months' tour in the island, so co-ordinate all this as to supply the deficiencies to such an extent as to be able to write a full and satisfactory History of Architecture in Java. The Dutch have, however, far outstripped our colonial authorities, not only in the care of their monuments, but in the extent to which they have published them, and in late years many works have appeared which are filling up the gaps, so much so that the survey sketched out by Sir Stamford Raffles is now being accomplished ; the appointment, also, in 1901 of an Archaeo- logical Survey under the direction of a highly qualified com- mission of experts, is at present advancing our information in every direction by publications that are models of exhaustive and accurate surveys.