mm or manutactcteing salt. 



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gatliered, mid water filtered ttroiigh it and evapo- 

 rated by ai'tificial heat. In Borneo, and among 

 some of the Philippines, marine plants are bumed, 

 and the Ije made from their ashes is evaporated 

 for the sake of the salt contained in the residuum. 

 All through the interior, and among the mountains, 

 houses are built for storing it, and officials are ap- 

 pointed to dispose of it to the natives. The quan- 

 tity yearly manufactured for the government at all 

 the various places is about 40,000 koyangs, or 80,000 

 tons ; but it is not allowed to be shipped and ueed 

 until it is five yeai-a old, and a supply of 200,000 

 koyangs, or 400,000 tons-, is therefore constantly kept 

 on hand. It is deposited in the government store- 

 houses by individuals at one-third of a guilder per 

 picul. It is then transported and sold at a gi'eat 

 profit by the government, whicih monopolisses the 

 traffic in this necessary condiment, and obtains a 

 lai^ portion of its revenue in this manner.* 



In the afternoon we were abreast the high Tenger 

 (i e., wide or spacious) mountains. Here is the famous 

 " Sandy Sea," a strange thing on an island covered 

 with such luxmiant vegetation as everywhere appears 

 in Java. To reach it one has to climb an old vol- 

 cano to a height of about 7,500 feet above the sea, 

 when he suddenly finds himself on the rim of an old 

 crater of an irregular elliptical form, with a minor 



* The prices obtnined for it are egtablislied as follows : On Sfaduru 

 and the north coast of Java, 6.92 gaiiders ; on tbe south coast, &.92 gl. ; 

 at Bencoolen, Padang-, and Priftman, on the weat coaat of Sumatra^ 

 B,&6|gl. ; Ayar Bangis and Natiil, 6gl.; Paletnbang, 5.10 g].; Banea, 

 gl ; Bandy ermiissln, 6,60 gl ; Himibas and Pontianak, 5-10 gl 



