TOUR FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDIRI, &C. 23 7 
of the base is a square nearly 50 feet each way, of which the 
outline is diversified with projecting balconies or-fretiring 
recesses. The building is solid and contains no interior 
apartment, yet may be considered as consisting of three 
stories, viz, the basement, and 1st and 2nd or uppermost 
story. The construction is such that the first story is less in 
dimensions than the basement, in as much as there is a gallery 
or way all round the upper entablature of the basement, by 
which you can make the circuit of No. 1. So also No. 2 or 
the uppermost compartment is less than No. 1, by the breadth 
of a similar surrounding gallery, as is the case with No. 1. 
The design is analogous to that of Boro Budur, only there 
the edifice is reared around a hill as a nucelus, whereas here, 
on an imcomparably smaller scale, the whole is a mass of 
built up materials resting on the level ground. The height 
of the basement is about 8 feet from the ground, on this No. 
1 rises about 7 feet, and No. 2 again as much on that, making 
the total height of the temple about 22 feet. The front part 
of the temple faces west 30° north and has its back turned to 
the Klut mountain. The front part of the basement projects 
more than any other part of the building and forms a roomy- 
balcony in front of Nos. 1 and 2. To this balcony access is 
gained by two flights of narrow steps from the front, one 
near each angle of the building, so that turning right or left 
you stand before No. 1, The ascent to this is from oppo¬ 
site the centre of the balcony and thus up the middle of the 
edifice A flight of 10 steps accomplishes this, and 10 more 
lead on, in the same straight line, to the summit of the build¬ 
ing. The whole exterior of the edifice is composed of neatly 
hewn trachyte stone fitting close together without the inter¬ 
vention of mortar, and covered with a profusion of well 
executed sculpture, indicative of both the taste, the skill and 
the patience of the workmen. The ingenuity of the workman 
has been taxed not only in planning and executing the general 
contour of the edifice, with its balconies, entablatures, cornices 
and other architectural embellishments, but in ornamenting 
the same with a variety of apparently historical designs. 
Having noted on the spot the subjects of these representations, 
I will endeavour to convey some idea of them. Variety has 
been studied, and is distinctly manifest in the representations 
exhibited on the walls of the three stories. 
Round about the lower or basement story, the wall is 
parcelled out alternately into square tablets and oval medal¬ 
lions. On the tablets are represented human beings mostly 
engaged in warlike operations, and in a posture of defence 
