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great abundance. It was the less common on Mountain 

 Gede, South of Batavia; on the Mountain Ungarang, South 

 of Semarang; and on the Mountain Ijen, at the farthest 

 eastern extremity; but I traced its range through the whole 

 Island. 



" Most of these mountains and ridges furnish tracts of 

 considerable extent, fitted for the cultivation of wheat, and 

 other European grains. Certain extra-tropical fruits are 

 likewise raised with success: Peaches and Strawberries 

 grow in considerable abundance, and the common culinary 

 vegetables of Europe are cultivated to great extent. To 

 most Europeans and Chinese, a residence in these elevated 

 regions is extremely desirable ; and even the natives, who 

 in general dislike its cold atmosphere, are attracted by the 

 fertility of the soil, and find it an advantage to establish 

 villages, and to clear grounds for culture. Potatoes, 

 Cabbages, and many other culinary vegetables are exten- 

 sively raised, as the entire supply of the plains in these 

 articles depends on these elevated districts. Extensive 

 plantations of Wheat, and of other European grains, as well 

 as of Tobacco, are here found, where Rice, the universal 

 product of the plains, refuses to grow. These grounds and 

 plantations are laid out in the deep vegetable mould, where 

 the Teledu holds its range as the most ancient inhabitant 

 of the soil. In its rambles in search of food, this animal 

 frequently enters the plantations, and destroys the roots of 

 young plants; in this manner it causes extensive injury, 

 and on the Tengger Hills particularly, where these planta- 

 tions are more extensive than in other elevated tracts, its 

 visits are much dreaded by the inhabitants : it burrows in 

 the earth with its nose in the same manner as Hogs, and in 

 traversing the hills, its nocturnal toils are observed in the 

 morning in small ridges of mould recently turned up. 



" The Mydaus forms its dwelling at a slight depth beneath 



