account would be superfluous. It may, however, be proper to observe, that the periods above described chiefly refer to the progress of the principal rice crop, as influenced by the annual rains; but there are many lands rendered quite independent of these rains, by the vicinity of streams which afford a plentiful supply of water at all times of the year. In many favoured situations, it is even common to observe at one view the rice fields in almost every stage of their cultivation; in one, women engaged in planting the newly prepared soil, and in another, the reapers employed in collecting the fruits of the harvest. Lands in Java are classed under two general divisions; lands which are capable of being inundated directly from streams or rivers, and lands which are not so. The former are termed _sáwah_, the latter _tégal_ or _gága_. It is on the _sáwahs_ that the great rice cultivation is carried on; and these admit of a subdivision, according to the manner in which the land is irrigated. Those which can be irrigated at pleasure from adjacent springs or rivers, are considered as the proper _sáwah_; those which depend on the periodical rains for the whole or principal part of the water by which they are fertilized, are termed _sáwah tádahan_. The former are by far the most valuable, and lands of this description admit of two heavy crops annually, without regard to any particular time of the year: the fields seldom exceed forty or sixty feet in breadth, and the water is retained in them by means of a small embankment of about a foot in height. On the slopes of the mountains, where this mode of cultivation is chiefly found, these fields are carried gradually above each other in so many terraces, for the purpose of irrigation, the water admitted in the upper terrace inundating each of them in its descent. The _tégal_ lands are appropriated to the culture of less important crops, such as the mountain rice, Indian corn, &c. The vast superiority of the _sáwah_, or wet cultivation, over that of _tégal_, or dry, is shewn in their relative produce, and may be still further illustrated by a comparison of the rents which the two descriptions of land are calculated to afford. The quantity of _tégal_ land, or land fit for maize, as compared with that of _sáwah_ land, varies in different districts. In _Chéribon_, the _tégal_ land, by the late survey, amounted only to 2,511, while the _sáwan_ exceeded 16,000. In _Tégal_ the proportions were even more widely varied, the number of _jungs_ of the former to the latter being as 891 to 11,445. In _Surabáya_ they were as 1,356 to 17,397; in _Kedú_ and _Besúki_ they were nearly equal, being respectively as 8,295 to 10,757, and as 6,369 to 7,862.