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CITY OF SOERAKATA. 



city of Soerakata, about four p.m., and put up at the hotel, had 

 my dinner, and took a stroll in the evening. The town is 

 pleasantly situated, with a river, the Solo, running through 

 it. There is a very fine and broad avenue of tamarind trees 

 leading up to the emperor's palace, and some of the banyan 



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THREE STONE SLABS AT THE TEMPLE OF SOOKOO, SHEWING THE 

 MANUFACTURE OF THE KRISS. 



trees in other parts of the town are magnificent specimens. 

 These trees are generally planted in the centre of the 

 Allon-Allon, the Javanese name for the open square before 

 all the houses of the great men, on which they have their 

 tiger fights, and parades of troops, &c. The city, placed in a 



