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gatliered, and water filtered througli it and evapo- 

 rated by artificial heat. In Borneo, and among 

 some of tlie Philippines, marine plants are burned, 

 and the lye made from their ashes is evaporated 

 for the sake of the salt contained in the residumn. 

 All through the interior, and among the mountains, 

 houses are built for storing it, and officials are ap- 

 pointed to dispose of it to the natives. The quan- 

 tity yearly manufactured for the government at all 

 the various places is about 40,000 koyangs, or 80,000 

 tons ; but it is not allowed to be shipped and used 

 imtil it is five years old, and a supply of 200,000 

 koyangs, or 400,000 tons, is therefore constantly kept 

 on hand. It is deposited in the government store- 

 houses by individuals at one-third of a guilder per 

 picul. It is then transported and sold at a great 

 profit by the government, which monoj^olizes the 

 traffic in this necessary condiment, and obtains a 

 large portion of its revenue in this manner.*^ 



In the afternoon we were abreast the high Tenger 

 (i. e., wide or spacious) mountains. Here is the famous 

 " Sandy Sea," a strange thing on an island covered 

 with such luxuriant vegetation as everywhere appears 

 in Java. To reach it one has to climb an old vol- 

 cano to a height of about 7,500 feet above the sea, 

 when he suddenly finds himself on the rim of an old 

 crater of an irregular elliptical form, with a minor 



* The prices obtained for it are established as follows: On Madura 

 and the north coast of Java, 0.02 guilders; on the south coast, 5.1)2 gl. ; 

 at Bencoolen, Padang, and Priaman, on the west coast of Sumatra, 

 ri.GGJgl. ; Ayar Bangis and Natal, 6 gl. ; Palembang, 5.10 gl. ; iJanca, 

 6.72 gl. ; Bandyermassin, 6.66 gl. ; Sambas and Pontianak, 5.10 gl. 



