. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. this place was the abrupt hills ofwhich I have spoken. Composed of calcareous crystallinerocks, probably of Eocene age, they appear to have been inancient times the boundaries of the ocean in which was laiddown what is now the plain of Eastern Sumatra. The Peal*of the lliang, the most abrupt of them all, is the highest landbetween itself and the coast, distant in a direct line one hun-dred and twenty miles, and commands a magnificent panoramaof a long stretch of the Ogan valley, run
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. this place was the abrupt hills ofwhich I have spoken. Composed of calcareous crystallinerocks, probably of Eocene age, they appear to have been inancient times the boundaries of the ocean in which was laiddown what is now the plain of Eastern Sumatra. The Peal*of the lliang, the most abrupt of them all, is the highest landbetween itself and the coast, distant in a direct line one hun-dred and twenty miles, and commands a magnificent panoramaof a long stretch of the Ogan valley, running between deepbarriers, the sun-flash on whose surface guided the i ye all ISO A NATURALISTS WANDERINGS along its winding course till it disappeared through a narrowrocky gateway into the blue sea-like plain of , fields of young corn, dotted with small watch-hutswhich were so utterly embowered in Convolvulacete that theyseemed to be simply immense bunches of yellow and purpleflowers, covered the rich flats all along both banks, andmight themselves have marked out the course of the river by. TATA BVBUK-TALA3I. their luxuriant verdure. The Pangeran owned rice-fields,partly inherited, partly purchased, which he informed mewere worth £20,000. He reckoned, however, that his income,from cotton and coffee and other fruits, but principally frombuffaloes, was greater than from his rice-fields. The houses of the Ogan people were all richly carved, andthe ornamentation is said to be peculiar to their own valley.
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