THE 
JOURNAL 
OF 
THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO 
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EASTERN ASIA. 
TOUR. FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDIRI, BLITAR, AN- 
TANG, MALANG AND PASSURUAN, BACK TO SOURABAYA* 
By Jonathan Rigg, Esq., Memler of the Batavian Society of Arts 
and Sciences. 
S RING AT is a long straggling village ; hovels and patches 
of cultivation alternating tor a paul or two along the road. 
Towards the north east end is a ridge, of hills, about a paul 
long and a couple of hundred feet high, covered with trees, 
and which is a solitary elevation rising on the extensive plain. 
After passing Sringat you enter the coffee gardens, which 
continue nearly all the way to Biitar, excluding every other 
view from the "traveller, the luxuriant dadap trees which are 
planted for their shade, forming quite a forest on either hand. 
This monotony is broken at the 115 paul by the post station 
of Jati Lenger, which is the first place where we observed the 
teak tree since leaving Kediri. A few small stunted ones 
are growing wild here and evidently in a state of nature, 
their larger congeners having been cut down for useful pur¬ 
poses. The coffee gardens are again soon entered, and ate 
found every where very clean, and in a healthy, thriving 
condition The crop of the year had long been gathered, but 
here and there were people collecting the last ripened berries. 
Before noon we reached our destination and alighted at Ka - 
panjen , the hospitable abode of Mr Laup. Biitar, 120| pauls 
from Sourabaya, is of itself a place of no interest, not being 
* Continued from page 202. 
VOL. III. NO. V, MAY, 1849, K. k 
