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"West Java, a panoramic view is commanded of both seas, wich the intervening hills 

 and plains, forests, villages, and surrounding plantations. 



South of the Gedé highlands the tertiary rocks, limestones, clays, and sand- 



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stones attain their greatest development. Neai4y everywhere carved into steep cliffs 

 800 to 1,000 feet high, these white and yellowish formations rise in the Breng- 

 Breng Peak to an altitude of over 6,500 feet. But farther east they disappear 

 beneath the talus of scoriae and lava streams of the Patuha volcauo (7,800 feet). 



