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dische Alterthumskunde, Bd. i. S. 847 ; he is inclined to regard the name as 

 not of Sanscrit origin. 



( 408 ) p. 281. Kosmos, Bd. iv. S. 284, and Anm. 6 (English edition, p. 239, 

 and Note 330). 



( 409 ) p. 281. Gunung is the Javanese word for mountain; in Malay, gunong. 

 It is remarkable that its use does not extend further over the enormous range 

 occupied by languages of the Malay stock. See the comparative table of words 

 in my brother's work, Ueber die Kawi Sprache, Bd. ii. S. 249, No. 62. As it is 

 the custom to prefix this word to the names of mountains in Java, it is indi- 

 cated in the text for the most part by a simple G. 



( 41 ) p. 281. Le'op. de Buch, Description Physique des lies Canaries, 1836, 

 p. 419. But it is not only Java (Jnnghuhn, Th. i. S. 61, and Th. ii. S. 547) 

 which has a mountain, G. Semeru, a little higher than the Peak of Teneriffe, 

 being 1 2,235 feet ; the also still active Indrapura in Sumatra, which would 

 seem to have been less exactly measured, is supposed 11,500 French feet 

 (12,256 Engl.) ; (See Th. i. S. 78, and profile map, No. 1.) Next to Indra- 

 pura come, in Sumatra, Telaman one of the summits of Ophir (not 13,834, 

 but only 9603 feet high), and Merapi (according to Dr. Horner, 9570 feet) the 

 most active of the thirteen volcanoes in Sumatra, which, however (Th. ii. S. 294, 

 and Junghuhn's Battalander, 1847, Th. i. S. 25), must not be confounded with 

 two Javanese volcanoes of similar name : the celebrated Merapi near Jogjakerta 

 (9208 feet), and the Merapi which is the eastern part of the summit of the 

 Volcano Idjen (8595). The name Meru, combined with the Malayan and Ja- 

 panese word api, fire, has been supposed to be recognised in Merapi. 



( 4n ) p. 282. Junghuhn, Java, Bd. i. S. 80. 



( 412 ) p. 282. Compare Joseph Hooker, Sketch Map of Sikhim, 1850, and 

 in his Himalaya Journals, vol. i. 1854, Map of part of Bengal ; as well as 

 Strachey, Map of West-Nari, in his Physical Geography of Western Thibet, 

 1853. 



( 41S ) p. 283. Junghuhn, Java, Bd. ii. fig. ix. S. 572, 596, and 601604. 

 From 1829 to 1848, the small eruption-crater, Bromo, had eight fiery eruptions. 

 The crater-lake which had disappeared in 1842 had reformed in 1848 ; but 

 according to the observations of B. Van Herwerden, the presence of water had 

 not prevented the ejection of glowing scoriae, which were hurled to a distance. 



( 414 ) p. 283. Junghuhn, Bd. ii. S. 624641. 



( 415 ) p. 284. Gunung Pepandajan was ascended by Reinwardtin 1819, and 

 by Junghuhn in 1837. Junghuhn, who examined carefully the parts round the 

 mountain, which are covered with numerous angular blocks of lava, and com- 

 pared them with all the earliest accounts he could obtain, looks upon the state- 



