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height, it burst, and the mud fell down in concentric circles, in which state it remained quiet until a sufficient quantity of air again formed internally to raise and burst another bubble, and this continued at intervals of from about half a minute to two minutes.

From various other parts of the pudding round the large bubbles, there were occasionally small quantities of sand shot up like rockets to the height of twenty or thirty feet, unaccompanied by smoke; this was in parts where the mud was of too stiff a consistency to rise in bubbles. The mud at all the places we came near was cold.

The water which drains from the mud is collected by the Javanese, and, being exposed in the hollows of split bamboos to the rays of the sun, deposits crystals of salt. The salt thus made is reserved exclusively for the use of the Emperor of Solo. In dry weather it yields thirty dudgins of 100 catties each, every month, but in wet or cloudy weather less.

Next morning we rode two and a half paals to a place in a forest called Ramsam, to view a salt lake, a mud hillock, and various boiling pools.

The lake was about half a mile in circumference, of a dirty looking water, boiling up all over in gurgling eddies, but more particularly in the centre, which appeared like a strong spring. The water was quite cold, and tasted bitter, salt, and sour, and had an offensive smell.

About thirty yards from the lake stood the mud hillock, which was about fifteen feet high from the level of the earth. The

diameter of its base was about twenty-five yards, and its top about eight feet; and in form an exact cone. The top is open, and the interior keeps constantly boiling and heaving up like the bluddugs. The hil lock is entirely formed of mud, which has flowed out of the top ;-every rise of the mud was accompanied by a rumbling noise from the bottom of the hillock, which was distinctly heard for some seconds before the bubble burst ;-the outside of the hillock was quite firm. We stood on the edge of the opening, and sounded it, and found it to be eleven fathoms deep. The mud was more liquid than at the bluddugs, and no smoke was emitted either from the lake, hillock, or pools.

Close to the foot of the hillock was a small pool of the same water as the lake, which appeared exactly like a pot of water boiling violently; it was shallow, except in the centre, into which we thrust a stick twelve feet long, but found no bottom. The hole not being perpendicular, we could not sound it without a line.

About 200 yards from the lake were two very large pools or springs, eight and twelve feet in diameter; they were like the small pool, but boiled more violently and stunk excessively. We could not sound them for the same reason which prevented our sounding the small pool.

We heard the boiling thirty yards before we came to the pools, resembling the noise of a waterfall. These pools did not overflow of course the bubbling was occasioned by the rising of air alone. water of the bluddugs and the lake is used medicinally by the Javanese.

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