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h if CHS tiliaccus^ Szc. which yielded a very grate- 

 ful Hiade in this burnino; climutc. I was not 

 a little furprifcd to fee fonie branches cover to 

 the very ground the whole length of the trunk of 

 thefc hill trees, very different from the port of all 

 thofe of the fame fpecies which I had met with 

 elfevv here; but it was not long before I faw fome 

 Javanefc making, with a great chopper, feveral 

 notches in the bark pretty clofe to each other; 

 and I was informed that this pracflice was in ufe 

 among them from time immemorial, in order to 

 occafion the expaniion of young flioots in the 

 places cut in this manner. They take care to 

 choofe the rainy feafon for the operation, that 

 it may fucceed with greater certainty. Vege- 

 tation is then {o rapid in this climate, that, in a 

 little time after this incifion was made, I faw 

 buds fpringing forth in great numbers from 

 the middle of the bark cut as I have juft de- 

 fcribed. Thefe people, however, are in general 

 by no means converfant in agriculture. 



On the :;th of December the governor cf 

 Sourabaya granted the naturalifts liberty to 

 vifit the movintains of Prau, which are diflant 

 about fix myrianieters to the vvefi: fouth- wcO: of 

 the town. 



We let olf ihc next day in order to go to 

 tlie village of Poron, which is built near the 

 foot of thefe mountains. Some javanefc car- 

 Y 3 ricd 



