most important being the temples of Loro-Jongran and
Chandi Sewa. At Loro-Jongran there were twenty separate
buildings, six large and fourteen small temples. They
are now a mass of ruins, but the largest temples are
supposed to have been ninety feet high. They were all
constructed of solid stone, everywhere decorated with carvings
and bas-reliefs, and adorned with numbers of statues,
many of which still remain entire. At Chandi Sewa, or
the “ Thousand Temples,” are many fine colossal figures.
Captain Baker, who surveyed these ruins, said he had
never in his life seen “ such stupendous and finished
specimens of human labour, and of the science and taste
of ages long since forgot, crowded together in so small
a compass as in this spot.” They cover a space of nearly
six hundred feet square, and consist of an outer row of
eighty-four small temples, a second row of seventy-six, a
third of sixty-four, a fourth of forty-four, and the fifth
forming an inner parallelogram of twenty-eight, in all
two hundred and ninety-six small temples; disposed in
five regular parallelograms. In the centre is a large
cruciform temple surrounded by lofty flights of steps
richly ornamented with sculpture, and containing many
apartments. The tropical vegetation has ruined most of
the smaller temples, but some remain tolerably perfect,
from which the effect of the whole may be imagined.
About half a mile off is another temple, called Chandi
Kali Bening, seventy-two feet square and sixty feet high,
in very fine preservation, and covered with sculptures of
Hindoo mythology surpassing any that exist in India.
Other ruins of palaces, halls, and temples, with abundance
of sculptured deities, are found in the same neighbourhood.
B o ro bo d o .—About eighty miles westward, in the province
of Kedu, is the great temple of Borobodo. It is built
upon a small hill, and consists of a central dome and seven
ranges of terraced walls covering the slope of the hill and
forming open galleries each below the other, and communicating
by steps and gateways. The central dome is
fifty feet in diameter; around it is a triple circle of seventy-
two towers, and the whole building is six hundred and
twenty feet square, and about one hundred feet high. In
the terrace walls are niches containing cross-legged figures
larger than life to the number of about four hundred, and
both sides of all the terrace walls are covered with bas-
reliefs crowded with figures, and carved in hard stone;
and which must therefore occupy an extent of nearly
three miles in length ! The amount of human labour and
skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into
insignificance when compared with that required to complete
this sculptured hill-temple in the interior of Java.
Gunong P rau.—About forty miles south-west of Sama-
rang, on a mountain called Gunong Prau, an extensive
plateau is covered with ruins. To reach these temples