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fields and meadows watered by fmall ftieams. The pic- 

 turefque appearance of this fcene is heightened by groves 

 and fcattered clumps of fhady trees loaded with fruit. To- 

 wards the eaft it is bounded by lofty mountains, called the 

 mountains of Bonthain, which divide this pnrt of Celebes 

 towards the weft from Bony, and towards the fouth from the 

 gulph of Tomini into two parts. 



The feafons are here the fame as in Java. The fouth-eaft 

 monfoon continues from May till November, nnd is called 

 the favourable monfoon : the north -weft, called the bad 

 monfoon, continues from November till May. During the 

 former the fky is ferene and the weather dry ; but continual 

 winds and violent rain prevail during the latter. It is very 

 fingular, that on the eaft fide of the before-mentioned moun- 

 tains of Bonthain the contrary takes place: for, when fine 

 weather in the fouth-eaft monfoon prevails on the weft fide 

 of the mountains, there is nothing but hurricanes and rain 

 on the eaft fide ; fo that the boundaries of fumrner and win- 

 ter are only a ^ii\w miles dlftant from each other. The prin- 

 cipal produiSlions here are rice and cotton. The rice, how- 

 ever, is inferior in quality to that of Java, but the cotton' i.-? 

 the beft in India. 



The Dutch Eaft India company poHefs the cafile of Rot- 

 terdam, called in the language of the country Adjong Pan- 

 dang, together with the furrounding diltrict, in confequence 

 of a treaty which they entered into with the prince of Ce- 

 lebes. But as the boundaries of their poffeffions were per- 

 haps not accurately defined, the company always endeavoured 

 to enlarsre, and the Macafiars on the other hand to confine 

 them. The company poflefs alfo a peninfula extending from, 

 this place towards the north, and a large flat diftricl:, which, 

 on account of its fertility, is confidered as the granary of 

 Celebes, together with feveral places lying between (his 

 plain and the mountains, and likewife a great many villages 

 among the mountains. Thefe places border on each other, 

 and are bounded on' the weft by the fea, on the north by the 

 jkingdonis of Tanette and Maros, on the eaft by Tamari, and 

 on the fouth bv the kingdom of Macaflar. Tlie inhabitants 



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