The Cone and Crater of Gedeh. 11^ 



moments during wliich the clouds lifted and gave us a brief 

 yet comprehensive glimpse of the wondrous natural beauty of 

 the surrounding landscape. 



Pangerango, 9326 Paris, or 9940 English, feet in height, 

 is the loftiest of the extinct volcanic cones of Java, rising on 

 the eastern slope of an enormous crater-gulf, likewise extinct. 

 Close in the vicinity, not above a mile distant to the S. E., 

 and communicating with it by the ridge of Pasce Alang, 7000 

 (Paris) feet in height, rises another volcanic peak, Gunung 

 Gedeh, of almost precisely identical lieight (9323 Paris, or 

 9937 English, feet). Its summit has fallen in, and from amid 

 tlie debris on the floor of this ruined crater rises a second cone 

 far less in height, but in full activity, with a deep crater, which 

 is the true fiery gorge of the still active Gedeh. Towards 

 7 A. M. the clouds dispersed for a considerable space, when 

 directly opposite us we saw the beautifully regular cone of 

 Gedeh, with its perpendicular precipitous crater- wall, some 600 

 or 700 feet high. So near, indeed, did it appear to the eye 

 that we coidd almost fancy it possible to throw a stone from 

 the one summit to the other, so that it should fall exactly 

 into the crater, from amid whose rents and cavities thick 

 volumes of smoke were bursting forth at several points. 



By 10 A.M. our caravan was once more under weigh on our 

 return to Tjipannas. The geologist of the Expedition, how- 

 ever, accompanied by Dr. Vrij and one of the government 

 employes, set off upon a rather dangerous adventure, viz. 



