176 c Essay, 8c. 
I have premised, to the detail of the remarks 
on the subjects above mentioned, an extract of 
the journal kept during my route, for the pur- 
pose chiefly of elucidating the geographical ae 
criptions: this will form the first section: the 
second comprizes the geographical remarks, the 
third those on mineralogy, and the fourth those 
on botany. I left Surakarta on the first of 
August. 
August 9.— The roid from Surakarta to 
Jokjokarta pervades the most cultivated portion 
of the antient Mattaram; the tract is, on the 
whole, level; after a small eminence. near the 
remains of deserted Kartasura, it passes, into 
the declivities of the mountain Marapi, which 
is observed, nearly in a North-west direction, at 
the distance of about twelve miles. Strangers 
uniformly admire the surrounding scenery. The 
prospect is extensive and large: "the uniformity 
ofa country in a high state of cultivation is 
diversified by the huge cone of the Marapi, 
towards which the territory gradually rises, and 
by an extensive range of low hills which appear 
to. meet the road in a Western- direction: 
Numerous rivers and rivulets descending from 
the large mountain, cross the road: their cur- 
rent is rapid, and in their basius are found al- 
most exclusively volcanic materials. They 
frequently sweli after raine, so suddenly as to 
become dangerous to travcllers; most of them 
are checked by the Sou:hern hills, and being 
consequently diverted to the Eastward, fall iato 
the large river of Solo: one principal stream 
only takes a direction Westward of the range 
of hills, and discharges itself into the Southern 
Ocean at Manchingan. 
