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and of neatness in the execution ; and is carefully pointed out 
to the notice of visitors. The annexed eno-ravins; will enable 
the reader, in some measure, to form a judgment how far its 
merits are correspondent to the high notions they bestow on 
it. The inside, however, is fitted up with great neatness, 
and a magnificent and fine-toned organ occupies completely 
a side of the octagon. The pulpit of teak wood is a la- 
borious piece of wodvmanship, Avhich is executed in a good 
style of carving. The expence of finishing this church is 
calculated to have amounted to eighty thousand pounds. 
The other public buildings consist in a Lutheran and a 
Portugueze church, a Mahomedan mosque and a Chinese 
temple ; the stadt-house, the spin-house, the infirmary, 
the chamber of orphans, and some other institutions of 
inferior note; beside a very convenient and extensive market 
for butchers' meat, poultry, fish, grain and vegetables. 
The private houses of the inhabitants, and particularly of 
those in the service of the East India Company, are gene- 
rally of great dimensions ; the rooms are lofty, the doors and 
windows large. Most of the wood work and the furniture 
within are painted of a light chocolate brown, and all the 
mouldings are gilt. The ground flioors are flagged with 
smooth blue stones or square brown tiles which, being fre- 
quently washed in the course of the day, communicate a 
refreshing and an agreeable coolness to the lower apartments. 
From a register that is kept of the taxable dwelling 
houses in the city and suburbs of Batavia, it appears that 
there are 7 
