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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita00recl (find matches)
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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188 AUSTRALASIA. Fig. 77.—Magelang axd Btjeu-Budhuk. Scale 1 : 130,000. estuary accessible to ships of average size, the ancient city of Jmoana or Joana. South of Semarang the railway gradually rises in the direction of Ambarawa, which the Dutch have selected as their chief strategic station in the interior. Here the vast fortress of Willem I., 1,680 feet above sea-level, commands several natural routes radiating in all directions. Towards the south-east, on the first slopes of Mount Merbabu, stands the town of Salatiga, where in 1811 was signed the capitulation sur- rendering the Dutch East Indies to Great Britain. At present Salatiga is one of the chief health-resorts of Java. Magelang, capital of the province of Kadu, occupies the centre of a magnificent plain watered by the river Progo and fertilized b)' the ashes of the surrounding volcanoes. Some nine or ten miles to the south of this enchanting spot a small eminence near the Progo is crowned by the pyramidal temple of Buru-Budhur, the finest Hindu ruin in Java. Standing on a square plat- form, Ô40 feet on all sides, the edifice rises in seven retreating storeys to the central dagoha, or dome, a solid mass of masonry tower- ing above thousands of sculptured stones and bas- reliefs, representing battles, hunts, shipwrecks, domestic scenes, triumphal proces- sions, in which is figured the elephant, an animal unknown in Java. At the angles of the terraces are monstrous carved idols, while at intervals are throned effigies of Buddha of the traditional solemn and conventional type. Thus are intermingled in these sculptures t)iQ cults of Siva and Sakya-Muni. This superb monument, which has been compared, for vastness of proportions and finish of details, to the Cambojan
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110° 14 3 Miles.

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