252 Essey, &c. 
tions of the numerous central ranges, and entered 
on an uneven tract: the ascent continues, with 
occasionally intervening vallies, to Chelenan 
the highest point on the large road to the capital 
of Banyu-mas ; several rivulets intersect the road, 
inthe beds of which are rounded masses of Ba- 
saltes and Lava. The soil is deep, and on the 
whole fruitful. 1 found the various ranges 
which l| afterwards crossed from the capital to 
the southern foot of Kali-weddi, on the route 
towards Talachap, of the same constitution, 
“Upon the whole, great uniformity is observed 
in the central and transverse ranges of this part 
of the Island. On all thesoil is deep; and ex- 
tensive masses of stone, formed by a deposition 
from water, with fragments of Dasaltes rounded 
by attrition, are observed in most of them. 
. Thelower tract of Aya, which is bounded in 
the north by the projections of the ranges just 
described, and along the course of the southern 
shore by several ridges of low sand hills, issub- 
ject, during several months of the year, to the 
same inundation which takes place in the pro- 
vince of Baggalen eastward of the peninsula of 
Karang-bollong; but the greatest part of Aya 
is still in a state of nature, and its swamps are 
covered with impenetrable clusters of thorny- 
bambu ( Pring-ori ) various species of Erithri- 
naa, Mimosa, Ficus, Vitex, Eugenia, and other 
forest-trees, which from their distant situation 
are rarely applicable to any use. 
“From the southern declivities of the hills of 
ali-weddi to the principal settlement of Aya: 
( Adipollo, Adirijo, &c.) the road frequendy 
meets the curves at the eastern banks of the 
large river of Serayu, the course of which is 
