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12,375, which measurement, since it coincides very 
nearly with one taken by Lieutenant E. ff. Powell, E.N., 
during the voyage of the Mcirchesa , may he considered 
tolerably accurate. This volcano is, like all the others 
in the island, practically extinct, although a thin line of 
smoke is sometimes seen issuing from near the summit. 
It has never been ascended by any European. 
As in Bali, there are numerous lakes, mostly formed 
in extinct craters or depressions caused by volcanic 
action, and they are similarly used for irrigation purposes. 
The largest, Segara-anak, or the “ Baby Sea,” is at an 
elevation of nearly 9000 feet, hut is of no great extent. 
The rivers are also small but numerous, and are unfit for 
navigation, but in the rainy season they bring down vast 
volumes of water, and are at all times used to irrigate 
the land by a system as elaborate and careful as that 
obtaining in Bali, if not more so. There are few places 
in Java so highly cultivated and tended as the fertile 
valley which occupies the middle of the island. Large 
crops of maize and rice are grown, the latter being ex¬ 
ported in considerable quantity. Coffee, cattle, and 
horses are also represented in the exports. The handi¬ 
crafts are not equal to those of Bali, the Sasaks being 
especially an agricultural people, but excellent krisses 
and other weapons are made, and a large quantity of 
cottons are woven. Chinese copper money is the only 
coin current with the natives of the interior. 
Lombok is less known and less civilised than Bali. 
The Sasaks—apparently the original inhabitants, for there 
is no trace of an earlier race—are a Malay people allied 
to the Javanese and Bugis, but speaking a peculiar 
language akin to that of West Sumbawa, and written in 
the Balinese .character, which, with a few minor differ¬ 
ences, is the same as the Javanese. They are Moham- 
