402 BITUMINOUS AND OTHEB LAKES. 
direction; and being filled with water in tlic ' 
present the only obstacle to ivalking over _t 
These cavities are in general deep in proportio^^^j^ 
width, and many of them unfathomable : f' t 
contain is uncontaminated by the pitch, and i'* 

face, so as nearly to meet at the bottom, antl^*|^®^j,of 
fflit towards each other with a 
of a variety of fishes. The arrangement 
very singular, the sides invarably shelving 
>-6 bottom, and the" 
considerable 
VBxity. Several of them have beeti known 
to 
o<^i 
entirely, without leaving any mark or seam. 
The pitch lake of Trinidad contains many ** 
with grass and shrubs, which are the haunts 
the most exquisite plumage. Its precise 
any more tlian its depth, be readily ascertains ’ 
between it and the neighbouring soil not being ■ 
but its main body may be estimated 
cumference. It is bounded on the 
by the sea, on the south by a rocky eminence^ 
east by the usual argillaceous soil of the country' 
A 
rolcan'" p/' 
tb« , j 
f » "V 
Having received an extraordinary account 
phenomenon in the plains of Grobogna, fifty j l^V 
of Solo ; a party set off from Solo the 25tli 
examine it. — On approaching the dass or villaS® 
they saw between two topes of trees in a plain> 
like the .surf breaking over rocks willi a strong •'’H ‘h,’ f 
leew'ard. Alighting, they went to the ‘ Bhw yillft 
three 
at uu’-*' , 
north aiid^ , ^ii 
MUD LAKE OF JAVA. 
The 
of boiling 
Gazette. 
following 
details relative to the vc 
mud in Java are extracted fronn 
Javanese call them. They are situated in 
the 
Kuhoo, and by Europeans are ctilled by tlist 
- ■ ■ ited •'■''I 
centre 
immense bodies of sole mud were thrown ijP 
i,».v*AAv,/s,A, aiiu UJf XjUtU|yC<lU3 cue GtUiCU UJ I-Aa...- <jJ 'ITj 
found them, says the narrator, to be an elevated^P j 
about two miles in circinnlerence, in tlu' 
of ten to fifteen feet, in the form of large 
bite 
'..fit'. 
bursting, emitted great volumes of dense ce'hy 
These large bubbles, of wdiich there were t' . ’ 3 '’"''^ 
throwing up and bursting seven or eight tim^^'jj,;iJ' 
at times they threw up two or three tons 
