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clothed Avitli trees, shrubs^ and ferns. Our car- riage was drawn the whole way by four horses and six buffaloes; and even with these " ten in hand " we proceeded but slowly. On arriving at the sum- mit, we walked for about half a mile under a beautifid forest of trees, to see a prettily-situated lake, called the Tologo Warno, which is like a square basin in the bosom of the mountain, sur- roimded by trees and shrubs, growing from the sloping Ijanks down to the edge of the muddy- coloured water.

The man who looks after this place informed us that the water was once beautifully clear, and no less than eight hundred feet deej); Init during the eruption of an adjacent volcano now extinct such a quantity of stones fuid rubbish had been tlirown into the lake, that its de])t]i was dinn'n- ished to seventy-five feet, and the water became thick and muddy.

The road ikjw began to descend raj)idly. Fur-

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