The major of the Indian engineer corps, Mr. van Erp, did everything he could, notwithstanding the limited means the Dutch Government allowed him to dispose of, and he consequently co-operated to the preservation of this precious ruin for a longer or shorter period of time. But this is not yet enough. Granting the means of our (Dutch) small empire to be too feeble to such a purpose—why then not try to form a _Båråbudur-Society_ like the French founded a _Société d’Angkor_ in behalf of the ruins of _Kamboja_, which not only found support from the side of fellow-country-men in Europe and Farther-India or anywhere else, but also from foreigners? X. Finding ourselves on the fourth gallery we see there twelve-treaded staircases leading to the twenty-angled upper plane which had been walled in to its outside only. Successively (concentrically thus) we see there three circular terraces continually rising one yard and a half, declining three yards, and connected with each other by means of seven or eight-treaded staircases. Along the outer-edge of the first we see stand 32 open worked _dagobs_ or _tyaityas_; on the second there are 24, and on the third and highest 16, so altogether 72. And within this circle rises the majestic middledagob as the _only real dagob_ or _stûpa_ representing the leading idea, the final purpose of the whole ruin. When standing on the polygonal upper plane the space between the spires of niches and _tyaityas_ of the highest wall offers a strikingly beautiful aspect deep down and far off on the surrounding mountainous landscapes; a vista we enjoy far better when from the third and highest circular terrace. The whole valley of _Prågå_ lies there westward at the foot of mount _Mĕnoreh_, a neptunian formation of volcanic materials—and, to the east, of the high twin volcanoes _Mĕrbabu_ and _Mĕrapi_, and, to the north, of the _Sumbing_, the highest volcano of this part of Central Java. All the open worked tyaityas of the round terraces have a round foot modeled like a lotus-cushion doing duty as _Padmâsana_ which carries the sculpture (placed thereupon and inside) with its bell-shaped barrow. The bell with square openings has a height of 1½ yard carrying a slantingly rising square stone-block crowned with an octangular cone rounded off on its top[70]. The large _middle-dagob_ has the same type, but its wails partly rise in a perpendicular line above the foot nicely framed and hewn in the style of a colossal lotus-cushion in order to finish into a flat cupola rising for at least 8 yards above the highest circular terrace. It was van Erp who found back some fragments of the large cone, which once crowned this real _dagob_, so that he was able to finish again this _stûpa_, now wholly closed again, and crowned once more with the basis of the cone. The unfinished _Buddha_ image found inside in its _bhumi-sparsya-mudrâ_ had been kept outside, and provisionally deposited on the hill at the north-western foot of the ruin.