and of neatness in the execution; and is carefully pointed out
to the notice of visitors. The annexed engraving will enable
the reader, in some measure, to form a judgment how far its
merits are correspondent to the high notions 'they bestow on
it. The inside, however, is fitted up with great, neatness,
and a magnificent and fine-toned organ occupies completely
a side of the octagon. The pulpit of teak wood is a laborious
piece of workmanship, which is executed in a good
style of carving. The expence of finishing this church is
calculated to have amounted to eighty thousand pounds.
The other public buildings consist in a Lutheran and a
Portugueze church, a Mahomedan mosque and a Chinese
temple"'; the stadt-house, the spin-house, the infirmary,
the chamber of orphans, and some other institutions of
inferior no te; beside a very convenient and extensive market
for butchers’ meat, poultry, fish, grain and vegetables.
The private houses of the inhabitants, and particularly of
those in the service of the East India Company, are generally
of great dimensions; the rooms are lofty, the doors and
windows large. Most of the wood work and the furniture
within are painted of a light chocolate brown, and all the
mouldings are gilt. The ground floors are flagged with
smooth blue stones or square brown tiles which, being frequently
washed, in the course of the day, communicate a
refreshing and an agreeable coolness to the lower apartments.
From a register that is kept of the taxable dwelling
houses in' the city and suburbs of Batavia, it appears that
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