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mining- academy of Freiberg- in Saxony. He is a pupil of 

 the celebrated Professor Bernliard Cotta^ whom he still remem- 

 bers with affection and gratitude. As Aquasie had become 

 a Christian he could not, save at the risk of his life, return to 

 his heathenish native land, to the bosom of his own family. The 

 Dutch Government accordingly, regarding him in the light 

 of a victim to philanthropical experiments, at present pays 

 the young miner out of the state funds about d6400 per ann., 

 and occasionally employs him on mining researches. Aquasie 

 had resolved to settle for life in Germany, where, as he told 

 us, he felt himself thorouglily at home, but the climate did 

 not agree with him, upon which he returned to Java, and 

 had since occupied himself in coffee-culture. 



From the terrace of the hotel one enjoys a magnificent 

 prospect bounded by the mountains around. On the right 

 rises a lofty peak, whose summit-cone has been cloven into 

 three pinnacles, the Gunung Salak 7204 feet (English), an 

 extinct volcano, from which, however, in 1699 issued im- 

 mense volumes of sand and mud, accompanied by columns 

 of flames, tremendous bellowings, and convulsions of the 

 soil. The torrent of liquid mud hurried along trunks of 

 trees, carcasses of animals, tame as well as wild, crocodiles 

 and fish, and, still preserving its character of a mud torrent, 

 rushed into the sea near Batavia, stopping up the mouths of 

 several rivers and brooks. Since then this colossal hill, torn 

 to its innermost core by this fearful eruption, has remained 

 silent, and peaceful fields, alternating with luxuriant forest. 



