TOUR FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEBIRI, &C. 79 
©f the 16th October, 18*46, thousands of workmen were em¬ 
ployed closing lip the old dam, the example having been 
set by the European ladies throwing into the aperture little 
pellets of eat th, which were handed them on silver salvers. 
During the following night this service was performed, and 
on the morning of the 17th, the slight earthen mound 
which still kept out the water from the new works was 
removed, and the river bounded through the sluice into 
its newly formed course, to supply as before the low flats of 
Sourabaya., but henceforth to be guided and regulated as 
occasion might require. Messrs Pieterniaat and Tromp 
were again the principal persons who presided at the cere¬ 
monies, the work having been commenced and completed 
during their administration of this part of the country. 
The construction of the sluice had always to be stopped 
during the sainy reasons, when the pit was allowed to get 
water logged, but on the return of dry weather the cement 
and work generally were always found in order; the water 
of occasional showers or filterings through the bank from 
the river was thrown out by means of Archimedes pumps. 
Only a very slight flaw in the masony can now be detect¬ 
ed, viz., in the party buttress which separates the lock 
from the free and open water course ; the lower end of this 
seems to overhang a trifle, and a slight separation of two 
coping stones, which have, however, been re-cemented, be¬ 
trays a slight inequality of settling, which appears now to 
have stopped. The apertures above the town of Mojo- 
kerfco, from which the Sourabaya branch also received 
supplies of water, have now been closed, so that both water 
and boats all pass through the sluice of Meiirip, which is 
calculated to give passage to a sufficient volume. In the 
lock we saw a bambu pushed into the water to a depth of at 
least 10 feet, and the open course was said to be still some¬ 
what deeper. It must be remembered that this was the dry 
monsoon and the Kediri river low. The open part of the 
sluice is fitted with double and opposite grooves, into which 
beams of six or eight inches broad can be lowered, so as to 
partially check, or if necessary, entirely dam out the water 
of the river. Through this sluice must thus pass all the 
boats moving up or down the river, laden with produce or 
merchandize. The Chinamen, ever awake to forming a toll, 
or turning the penny, have already been suggesting to the 
authorities, the facility and certainty with which a toll 
might be levied at this spot, but to the honor of the Resi¬ 
dent, lie is not to be tempted, and has set his face against 
