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reported to be so low, that in the wet mousoon 

 the Cliiliman readily overflows its banks and a 

 great part of the country becomes little better 

 than a swamp, the cause of so rauch fever and 

 mortality to the native inkabitants. Tke Cliili- 

 man flows into the Western ocean. 



Volcanos have a tendency to destroy themsel- 

 ves and, after remaining for centuries in a state of 

 great activity, to José all outward appearance 

 of energy, tkeir vents becoming closely shut up 

 by the accumulation of their own debris. The 

 volcanic forces kowever go on increasing with- 

 in and, finding no longcr their accustomed egress, 

 open for themselves fresh vents at more distant 

 points , or else svvell and gain additional space 

 by upheaving en masse the solid strata, by which 

 tkey are skut in ; an operation of this kind may 

 have caused the rise of the Western end of Java, 

 thereby excluding the sea from its ancient do- 

 minions. That the igneous agents are not yet 

 extinct under Jasinga, may be inferred from the 

 kot springs, that are occasionally met with. 



On the Western slope of the Gedé two separate 

 apertures discharge waters of the temperature of 

 97 Fahrenheit, one of wkick kas a very strong 

 smell of Sulpkur and about five miles West of tkis, 

 near the Kampong Séa in Bantam, is a welt, whose 

 waters indicate a temperature of i34°. The water 

 of tkis latter wel], when drawn out and left to 

 cool, affords no other taste than that of ordinary 

 water after boiling and only a very slight smell 

 ofsulphur is experienced. The water bubbles up 



