212 HEIGHT OF THE PEAK. 



which mantled also round the base of the cone, and 

 seemed to struggle up it in broken lines, marking the 

 slight hollows in its sides. The upper part of the 

 cone, as well the sharp knife-edged ridges and the 

 peaks and mounds of the lower mass were bare and 

 brown, with here and there a crest of pine-like 

 trees, no doubt the casuarina which we had seen in 

 Java. There were no lava streams visible, either 

 on the sides of the cone or below, they having no 

 doubt long been covered up by dust and ashes, as in 

 the volcanoes of Java. 



Mr. Evans measured a base this morning, with 

 the patent log, under very favourable circumstances, 

 and made the height of the mountain, from the 

 mean of four closely agreeing observations 11,400 

 feet. In the Dutch Batavian Almanack, its height 

 is given as 10,800 Dutch, or 11,184 English feet. 

 It is therefore lower than the Peak of Teneriffe by 

 nearly 1000 feet, but about that much higher than 

 Etna. It exceeds the Peak of Teneriffe in majesty 

 of appearance, when viewed from the north side, 

 as it seems to rise more abruptly from the sea, while 

 on the south side it rises from a comparatively low 

 and level country, and then exceeds Teneriffe in 

 beauty still more than in nobleness of aspect. 



