A TRIP TO PROBOLINGGO, 
Lontar is applied exclusively to the leaf on which is written, and 
the tree itself is known by the name of Siwalan . Further eastward 
these words are not in use. From Grissee to Bezoekie the leaf is 
called KaropaJc, and the tree, Ental , the final syllable of which is 
again Hindu. Its durability in sea water is shown by the preference 
given to it by the natives in the Straits of Madura, for fishing stakes. 
Probolinggo is not the name by which the natives in general de¬ 
signate the place, as they most usually term it Bangor, a name said 
to mean “ stinking’ 5 and applied to a small runnel of water in the 
neighbourhood. So also the town of Pasuruan is known to few na¬ 
tives by that name, as they in general call the place, Getnbong. 
From Probolinggo to Sourabaya, a Diligence or Post-Wagen runs 
twice a week, the fare to Pasuruan being,/. 12 and from that fur¬ 
ther /. 16 copper, the total distance being 66-| pauls. Over this 
space of ground, the right to keep post horses is farmed out by go¬ 
vernment and has hitherto been let for/. 525 per month. I availed 
of this conveyance for my return, and we performed the distance of 
24 pauls to Pasuruan in about 3 hours. On leaving Probolinggo, 
you enter the district of Grati, and find yourself in a slightly hilly 
and undulating country, which forms a kind of embankment between 
the rich flats of the former place and Pasuruan. On looking to the 
Tengger mountains a few miles inland, you see the deep gap and 
gorge with which its face is furrowed, first running out northward 
from the Bromo ; but latterly turned at right angles towards the west, 
till it terminates at Sukapura, about 3,000 feet above the sea. At 
this point, it is evident, that an immense mass of earth and matter 
has been poured out upon the plain below, and the high broken land 
of Grati is the result of the catastrophe, which has desolated and 
destroyed the upper regions of a former state of the volcano Bromo. 
This gorge, called the Jurung Penganten , is about 10 pauls long 
and terminates above, at the Chamara Lawang, on the edge of the 
Dassar. M. Zollinger, the naturalist, in a late publication (Tijd- 
schrift, 8th year No. 2 p. 146) declares the Bromo to be a crater of 
elevation, pushed up at some former time into its present shape and 
height, and that it never possessed a cone to be destroyed. He is 
in this article combating the opinion of M. Henverdeu, who es¬ 
pouses a contrary opinion in the 20th vol. of the Batavian Tran¬ 
sactions. M. Z. appears to wish to deny or not to comprehend the 
possibility of a volcano succumbing within its own vortex, leaving a 
vast surrounding wall composed of volcanic strata dipping outwards 
