502 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I7OO. 



A Relation of the bad Condition of the Mountains about the Tungarouse and 

 Batavian Rivers, having their Source from thence, occasioned by the Earth- 

 quake between the Alh and 5th of January, 1699. Draiun lip from the Ac- 

 count given by the Tommagon Porbo Nata, and sent to the Burgomaster 

 IVitsen, F. R. S. N° 264, p. 595. 



The great Batavia river, from above Tangala Warna, from whence tlie river 

 receives the greatest part of its water, is stopped up, or covered with earth 

 from the fallen hills, till beyond the hill Tsyouspokitsjil, so that the place where 

 the river had its course formerly was not to be seen. Far beyond the hill 

 Tsyouspokitsjil, towards Batavia, the water comes out again from under the 

 earth, which is sunk down, but thick and muddy, passing over and through the 

 trees, with which the river formerly was stopped up. The trees lying in the 

 river are of a great size, and so close packed together, that it is impossible to 

 conceive how they came so. From the mountains near the beginning of the 

 Batavian river, called by the Javanians Songsy-tsialiwong, 7 hills are sunk 

 down, viz. 5 on this side and 2 on the other. But that the mount from whence 

 the river has also its source, above Talaga Warma, within the mountains Ter- 

 backti, are not sunk down, nor have received any damage. 



The Tangarang river, called by the natives Songhy Sedany, is also stopped 

 up and covered with earth, from the hill and branch Salack to the river Antum, 

 and from thence to Tangaram, being filled up with trees, but not in such a 

 great quantity nor so close together as in the Batavian river. On this side the 

 Tangaran river 9 are sunk down by the earthquake, and 7 branches, which had 

 formerly their issue in the river Tangaran, are also covered with earth ; but 3 

 other hills lying also on this side of the same river, and called Minjan, Dauw, 

 and Kasfichi, had not sustained any damage, whereby the branches Autan and 

 Kaniki, the latter into the first branch, and the first into the river Tangaran, 

 have kept their course. And the hill Oudjong teboe, being called also Sedani, 

 from whence the Tangaran river had its source, is not sunk down. 



The high lands between the Batavian and Tangaran rivers, behind the old 

 court of the Jaccatra kings, called Pakkowang, having been a great wood, is 

 changed since the earthquake into an open field destitute of trees, the surface 

 of the ground being covered with a fine red clay, such as masons use here. 



The Tommagon Porbo Nata, in his going towards the mountains, heard a 

 noise like thunder ; and fearing that a sinking down of the ground or an erup- 

 tion of water would follow, he stood still with those that were about him, and 

 saw afterwards that the earth from the top of the mountains sunk down, and 



