A TRIP TO PROBOMXGGO. 
At Pasoruan, I found the new Resident Varkeorseer, making 1 
great improvements about the town, pulling down old dilapidated 
fences and replacing them with neat brick walls. Also the whole 
of the Residency they are building up earthen dykes or walls on each 
length side the roads and laying out a cart way parallel to that for car¬ 
riages, in the same way as adopted in the districts to the westward. 
After attending the ceremony of elevating the Regent from the 
rank of Tamongong to that of Adhipati, and witnessing the native 
tournament or <e Seninan” given on the occasion, I returned to Sou- 
rabaya during the night from Oth to 7th December. 
Sourabaya, 31 si December, 1846. 
Note to page 538. 
New Channels have lately been discovered to be naturally forming 
themselves at cither end of the Straits of Madura. For this discovery na¬ 
vigation is indebted to the unwearied exertions of Lieut. Jansens of the 
Dutch Navy who during the course of 1846, made accurate surveys of these 
approaches. The passage out to the northward, instead of turning N. W. 
round fort Erfprins, goes out in one straight line right across the middle of 
the sea bank in a course a little to the eastward of north. The first vessel 
taken through this channel was the Brig Rembang Captain Deighton in 
July 1847, under the guidance of Lieut. Jansens himself, since when seve¬ 
ral other ships have also used it and amongst others the private Stea¬ 
mer Koningin der Nedcrlandcn and the Government Steam Packet ship, 
Batavia.” The least water in the shoalest part, at spring tides is about 
9 feet but. deepens to about 15, at high tide. It is found to be deepening at 
about the rate of 9 inches in the 12 months, and Lient. Jansens is sanguine 
that, with the use of the dredging machine, during only one southeast 
monsoon, he would clear out a passage for ships drawing 18 feet. Govern¬ 
ment officials, however, do not appear to be disposed to afford him this 
opportunity of rendering so important a service, nor has the place yet 
been properly buoyed off being only pointed out by Jansen’s original bamboo 
stakes. 
The new channel from Sourabaya out to the sea, south of Madura, is 
said to be forming on the Java shore of the Strait, but the water in the 
usual passage being still considerable, little notice is as yet taken of the 
new one. 
