L An Account of the upper part of the Burning 
Mountain in the Ijle of Tcrnata according to 
the View tah^n thereof ; written to the Right 
Worjhtpful Nicholas Witzen, Burger m^er 
Amfterdam ^c. And by htm communica- 
ted to Dr. Martin Lifter, S. R. 
AFTER many Undertakings to fearch and exa- 
mine the Confticution oi the opening of the 
Mountain, as near as 'twas poflible to any of the Inhabi- 
tants, or Europeans : And after many Tryals made by 
my felf in other parts of the Mountain, it hath hitherto 
been impoflible to come fo near, as to fee the right 
Conftitution of it. 
My laft Expedition to this end I undertook from 
Gamma Lamma, which is towards the Souths Weft of the 
Mountain; and being got upon it, I found it impo/Eble 
to approach on that fide, becaufe the opening on the 
top of the Mountain is towards the North fide. And 
we being upoa the South fide of the (ame, from X to 
W S and R, as far as we could fee, (which feemed to be 
about 25* Hundred Foot) the top of the Mountain 
was all covered with Reed or Cane, by the Inhabitants 
€alkd Cannacanm. Not far from this fmall Hill X, up- 
on which then we flood j to difcover the upper part of 
the Mountain^ was a Valley T, which received the Wa^ 
tei? coming down from the Northern part W, to the 
Eafterly S, and Southerly parts R, which made a great 
noife, it having rained very much. This Water falling 
downwards to the Weft T, has by length of time made 
a cavity, fo that we heard the Water roar beneath our 
feet. Now if it had beea poffible. to have known at 
what diftance we had been,afier we hadpierced with hard 
Labour 
