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CITY OF SOEKAKATA. 
city of Soerakata, about four p.m., and put up at the hotel, had 
my dinner, and took a stroll in the evening. The town is 
pleasantly situated, with a river, the Solo, running through 
it There is a very fine and broad avenue of tiimarind trees 
leading up to the emperor s palace, and some of the banyan 
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TffRiLE STONE SL.l/iS AT THE TEMPLE OF SOOEOO, SHEmSG THE 
MANUFACTURE OF THE KEISS. 
trees in other parts of the town are magnificent specimens. 
These trees are generally planted in the centre of the 
AHon-AIlon, the Javanese name for the open square before 
all the houses of the great men, on which they have their 
tiger fights, and parades of troops, &c. The city, placed in a 
