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miles north of Makassar, after a course of about 200 

 miles. The Bahu Solo, which rises in the Tafuti Lake 

 and debouches just north of Nipanipa Bay in the south- 

 eastern peninsula, is hardly more than 120 miles in 

 length. Neither of these are navigable for anything but 

 small craft. The Chinrana, however, which runs into 

 the Gulf of Boni close to the town of that name, admits 

 large native vessels for a distance of 50 miles or more. 



Celebes has few of the temporary lakes which are so 

 marked a characteristic of the Philippine Islands and 

 Borneo. It exhibits none of the vast level stretches of 

 low-lying post-Tertiary land which are daily flooded by 

 tidal action as in the latter country. But it has several 

 fresh-water reservoirs, which are in some cases of con- 

 siderable extent, though not, apparently, of great depth. 

 The largest of these is Lake Poso, in the centre of the 

 island. Lake Tempe is drained by the Chinrana, and is 

 about 20 miles in length. Two other sheets of water, 

 Tafuti and Eanu, each not less than 10 miles long, are 

 situated near the head of the Tomaiki or Tolo Gulf. All 

 these are little known, but the Limbotto and Tondano 

 lakes are in districts long settled, and have Eviropeans 

 living on their shores. The former is close to Gorontalo, 

 in a plain surrounded by mountains, and was doubtless 

 formerly of nmch larger area. Now it does not exceed 

 7 miles in length. It is drained by the Gorontalo 

 liiver, which has carved its way to the sea through the 

 coast-range by a short but steep gorge. The Tondano 

 Lake, which is of much the same size, lies in the midst of 

 some of the most beautiful scenery in the archipelago, 

 the centre of the fertile and thickly populated district of 

 Minahasa. It has been described as occupying the crater 

 of an ancient volcano, but upon what grounds it would 

 be difficult to say, for there is nothing to support such a 



