GLIMPSE OF BATOOR. 221
All these lakes and sprinf]^s, being situated with- in two or three miles of each other, and chiefly on or near the Prau mountain, form an easy day's ex- cursion from the Passangrahan at Dieng.
We stopped, on our way back, to obtain a glimpse of Batoor, which is six miles from Dieng. It is situated on the spur of a low mountain of the same name, and is remarkable for some ruins, and a small, unmixed Chinese population, who go about in furs throughout the year, no Javanese caring to reside there, on account of the cold.
As we approached the Dieng, on our return, I perceived .several low })lllars standing at e((ui-dis- tances frcjiu each other, and extending in an o])li(jue line frc)m the road to the tenij)les. The surface of the ground on which they stood was con- vex, ;iud overgrown with tliick grass, under which it seems ])robabl(^ there was once a subterranean |)assag( -sucli, at least, was the AVodono's opinion. The ancients, he added, nsetl to tether elephants to
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