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A GLANCE AT M1XAIIASSA. 
front of Bolang, and on the north coast the bay of Amurang and 
the island of Menado Tua, a panorama which the pencil only, and 
not the pen, can depict. The variety is so great and striking that 
we remained chained to the place where we stood. 
After having thus visited Rano Assem, we followed our way along the 
cone of the still active craters, but to reach it we had to be carried, 
because it was impossible to take our horses. Having once reached 
the top, which is 50 feet higher than Rano Assem, we did nothing 
but descend and finally came to the foot of the cone. In climbing 
this mountain it happened often that our bearers instead of advanc¬ 
ing went back, because they could not get a firm footing amongst 
the soft stones. The foot and all the back of the mountain is strew¬ 
ed with immense clusters of rocks which have been ejected from 
the crater, and we are amazed at the force which must have attend¬ 
ed such eruptions, for 10,000 men could not move, much less trans¬ 
port, some of these rocks. 
We may here introduce a table of the heights of the different high 
mountains in the Moluccas,* ascertained by Professor Reinwardt 
1 . 
Gunong A pi in Banda, 
• m 
R. feet. 
1,646 
Mount Sapin, 
* * 
629 
Nount Bandera, 
• • 
1,549 
The east rim of the crater of Ternatd, 
* • 
5,404 
The highest point of the mountain Tidore,.. 
5,435 
Menado. 
The negory Kakaskdssen, .. 
• • 
2,589 
The mountain Lokon, 
• . 
5,052 
Negory Tomolion, 
2,413 
Rim of the crater Mahavvu . . 
9 • 
4,197 
Negory Tonddno, 
• 9 
2,096 
Mount Sfempo, 
• • 
4,744 
Seputan, rim of the crater, . . 
• 9 
5,5 70 
Klabat, • • .» • * 
9 9 
6,133 
We believe that the later estimates of Mr. F. A, Forsten, differ a 
little from these. 
At a height of about 4000 feet we mounted our horses again, al¬ 
though they had much difficulty in proceeding owing to the hard gravel. 
* The Residency of Menado is a dependency of the Molucca government. 
— Ed. 
