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VOYAGE OF THE POTOMAC. 
[March, 
fourteen, to three millions eight hundred and eighty-three thou- 
sand six hundred and fifty-one rupees; and after deducting the 
amount of lands provisionally granted to chiefs, there remained a 
net land rental of three millions six hundred and sixty-three thou- 
sand six hundred and eleven rupees ; add to the proceeds of farms 
and fixed taxes, provisionally continued, and the territorial revenue 
of the eastern provinces alone, will amount to four millions tvi^o 
hundred and six thousand three hundred and forty-one rupees ; 
in addition to this, salt, opium, and customs, including town-duties 
in these provinces, and the total will be five millions three hun- 
dred and sixty-eight thousand and eighty-five rupees. The other 
great branches of revenue of Java are the teak forests, which are 
extensive and valuable. Those in the central districts, ceded on 
the fall of Djoejocarta, afford employment to no less than two 
hundred thousand labourers. 
The political state of Java, after all the changes and revolu- 
tions it had experienced, had settled into a quiet calm previous to 
the arrival of the Potomac. Since its last cession to. the Dutch, 
in eighteen hundred and fifteen, the insurrectionary movements 
of one of the native princes had occasioned an intestine war, 
which had been, in some instances, very sanguinary. In quelling 
this insurrection, the Dutch are said to have lost not less than 
thirty thousand well-disciplined European troops. The native 
chief who raised this disturbance is represented as an able 
warrior and a desperate man ; and so much w^as he feared by the 
Dutch, that they set a price on his head. Despairing of success, 
he finally surrendered himself with all his force, and was honour- 
ably treated by the Dutch. 
