2J^ \0\AGL IN Si-.ARCH 



In tiTi'vclling froMi Sourabaya to Samarang I 

 had fecn with iurj3rire, in the markets of fcvcral 

 vilhiges, fnops illled with little fquare, flat 

 leaver of a reddilh potter's earth, which the 

 inhabitants call Lzna aj;;po. I had at firit ima- 

 gined that they might probably errploy thefe 

 for fcourmg their cletli:; ; but prcfcntly I faw 

 the natives chcvv' them in fniall quantities, and 

 they allured me that they made no other ufe of 

 thcm, 



lii crofiing the large rice plantations which 

 we had met wiLh at the foot of the mountains, 

 the nativcc; repeatedly pointed out to us fields 

 of rice on declivities that were too fudden 

 for the waters to lodge on them : here they cul- 

 tivated a fpccics of rice which, to thrive well, 

 does not require to be in an inundated foil ; but 

 they take care to cultivate it only in the feafon 

 v.-hej^. It is watered every day by copious rains.' 



I ;iad a hx'ady remarked in the Ifland of Java, 

 on djiiercnt heights, a great number of cocoa- 

 nut rrcc^;. which, being flripped of their leaves, 

 were dead a^ they flood. It had appeared to 

 Tne rather allojiilliing to fee fo great a number of 

 them in fucli a limited fpace, and I had not been 

 able to divine the caufe of this , but at laft I 

 was informed by feveral inhabitants of the 

 hills ficuaiedata little diftance to the north- 

 weft of Samarang, where 1 faw a great many of 



thofe 



