WONDERFUL COSTRrVANCEa. 



The^a arc J|[ ^ wind-sawo, and ;^ |g watei -aawa, 

 * wind-millfl and ^ ^ water-milk, ^ 3^ draw- 

 bridgei, • craoM ^ Hft Lhousand-pound^ifters, f 

 microscopes ^ ftfit ^ glasses for displaying raioule ob- 

 jects, clocks or § @ bells that strike of themselFss) 

 1% ^ 8i © ^'i ?ii 8J ^'■'^^ ^"^ beaits tliat can bolh 

 move and sing, automalone or ^ itl ^ wooden images 

 apparently endowed with life ; and a variety of other tbinga 

 which cannot be enuineratcd. 



waiTnSG OR TOOLIS, (gj^ ^ TriO-LE.) 



The native word for writing ta toolis too-le). The 



Dutch in writing use a gooie'e quill, cut to a poiat, and 

 formed into a pen ; this is dipped in ink, with which tbfty 

 write across the paper, from left to right ; the EogUsbj 

 Dutch, Portugueaej and all other European naiions use ihe 

 Btmemode. The Javaneaflj Malays, and lelflmg use pieces 

 of reed cut to a point for pens ; ibey also write across the 

 paper, but from right to left. The Buginesej the Balmese, 

 pcraong from Pasir, on Borneo, with the Dayaka, have 

 each a separate mode of writing. We have heard, also, tliat 

 there is a dejcription of foreigners, who write froni bottom to 

 top, but these seldom come to Batavia, and we hsTo not seen 

 them. 



JC ^ * I-AH-CfE FI3H BONE. 



Walking once through a native village, I saw a large alone 

 mortar, capable of holding fire pecki ; and being struck with 

 its unusual form, I aiked about it, and was told that it was 

 one of the vertibr^ of a large flab, and not a stone mortar. 



* Draw-bridge^, the Chinese writer aaye, are placed at the city gates; 

 they aie several thousaod pounds in weight, and arc opened and ehut 

 every morning and eTening ; one man, hoivever, c&ti puU them up. 



t The furm of these is like a tuht.' made of iron, wiUiin which there 

 i» a screw, one man can turn it, and even houses aud eUipp, when the 

 gcxew is applied, be lifted up or moved. 



