D PORRONG HILL. 



have been naturalised as Dutch subjects previously 

 to the passing of the act.* 



After spending an hour or more at Mr. Vanden- 

 bruck's, we proceeded to Porrong, where we crossed, 

 by a bridge, a branch of the Kediri. Here were 

 one or two more sugar establishments and a large 

 market, while a few miles on our right rose Porrong 

 Hill, a fine volcanic cone, the top of which was 

 shrouded in clouds, with beautiful wooded slopes 

 dipping into the flat country of the coast. At 

 eleven o'clock we reached the fifth post-house (or 

 wissel-post), where, for the first time, we got a bad 

 team of horses, which, with some difficulty, took us 

 two miles, when we found others waiting for us by 

 the road side. We here rose onto a low range of 

 undulating ground striking from the base of Porrong 

 Hill, and changed the rich cultivation of the flats 

 for a brown, barren-looking tract, like the hills near 

 Gressik. I could not see any section exposed, but, 

 from pieces of stone by the roadside containing 

 recent shells, I believe this is a ridge of recent lime- 

 stone. A small valley traversed this tract, with a 

 dry water-course. About half an hour after noon, 

 we entered Passarouan, having been only six hours 



* This edict was issued in 1834, previously to which time any 

 European, by applying and paying about 10/. for stamps, swear- 

 ing, at the same time, fidelity to the Governor, as representative 

 of the King of Holland, and obedience to the laws of the colony, 

 could receive full privileges as a citizen, could own property, and 

 travel to any part of the island he liked. 



