Identifier: javasumatraother00caba (find matches)
Title: Java, Sumatra and the other islands of the Dutch East Indies
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cabaton, Antoine, b. 1863 Miall, Bernard, 1876-
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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terminal cupola a pinch of the reveredashes of the Buddha. It is built without the aid of limeor mortar, the stones being jointed by means of tenonsand mortices and dovetails which bind them solidlytogether. The material is volcanic lava, whose greyishtint enhances the imposing and melancholy effect of thisenormous and complex structure—a melancholy hardlyenlivened by the most fantastic virtuosity of the chisel.It stands facing Merapi, in a wide plain of slendercoco-palms, the horizon closed by a scattered rangeof extinct volcanoes. Only the ruins of Angkor Wat, in French Indo-China,can rival Boro Budur in grandeur. Hindu by inspira-tion, like the latter, they surpass it in point of size, andare perhaps superior in grace, justness of proportion, anddelicacy of ornamentation. The Dutch Government, at the repeated instance of^uch scholars as the late Dr. J. L. A. Brandes, and ofthe archaeologists, amongst whom we must mentionDr. 1. Groneman, the founder of the Archaeological II c^^M.
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NATIVE BOATS, WILLEMSKERKE, SURABAJA.

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