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from the Minister of Djojocarta^ wbich inclosed 

 v/ith four citos, his own answer of the 14th to 

 mine of the llth^ sent to Samarang in place of 

 Solo, and returned back bj express on the 17th 

 by Sooracarta past Clattan, and so to Djojo- 

 carta, and now on therebonnd reached us at last. 

 In my answer I declined visiting Djojocarta, as 

 it was now too late. 



The walls of this edifice at Cali Sari are seven 

 feet thick ; the centre apartment twenty one feet 

 hy nineteen. The two stories, estimated by the 

 stones, thirty six feet, and the upper crown or 

 attick about twelve — Total forty eight feet in 

 heighth. The whole seems to have one of those 

 Ditches round it that I have described, and so 

 elose to the buildings that it could never have 

 been desi2:ned for their security, but rather for 

 their destruction. 



Of these figures in general itmay be observed, 

 that the faces, shape and air of the feraales are 

 Süigularly handsome, delicate and beautiful; in 

 no manner resembling the Physiognomy, habits 

 or costume of any of the present Inhabitants of 

 Java — the whole is most beautiful ; an inimit- 

 able softness in the lines of the countenance, 

 and the half bending inclination of the head, 

 the uxildj the modest countcnance^ incliuing with 



