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Dr. Jiinghulm, he was enabled to visit all the more important 

 points of geological interest in the Preanger Regency. Of 

 these two highly interesting excursions, which derived an ad- 

 ditional charm from the cordial hospitality of the Javanese 

 princes, we borrow from Dr. Hochstetter's memoranda the 

 following particulai's : — 



'• On the northern side of the table-land of Bandong, which 

 is a veritable garden of Eden, hemmed in by roaring volcanic 

 mountains, there rises a mountain chain 6000 feet above the 

 level of the sea, and 4000 above the lofty plateau of Bandong. 

 In this range three peaks are conspicuous. The native, ac- 

 customed to indicate each majestic natural feature of his love- 

 ly native land by some name which gives a clear idea of its 

 peculiar character, or expresses the emotion it makes upon his 

 senses, has named the easternmost truncated conical peak 

 Gmiung Tungul (7800 feet), that is, the Broken Stump or Tree, 

 and affirms that the long central ridge of Tangkuban Prahu 

 (6427 feet), or the Inverted Boat, was formed by the over- 

 tm-ned trunk of the tree, while the third very serrated peak, 

 the Buranguang (5690 feet), or Boughs of the Tree, forms 

 the crown of the tree with its branches and twigs. Only the 

 long central ridge, the actual hill, though its shape would not 

 readily lead us to suppose so, is at this day an active volcano. 

 Its crater is one of the most extraordinary spectacles in the 

 volcanic system of Java. Formerly it was necessary to follow 

 in the tracks of the rhinoceroses up the sides of this moun- 

 tain, and the ascent was not indeed without danger, since it 



