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AUGUST 26, 1920 General view of the Boro-Budur temple which, as a piece of architecture, is perhaps the greatest work of the ancients of the Far East .BROOKLANDS motor track and aerodrome is now mainly associated with the doings of the automobile fraternity, with occasional thrills from attempts by sprinters to get " over the top." Was it an attempt the other day at emulating in the air the bowl racers on terra firma, when a swan while flying the Brooklands course, overlooking the crude handiwork of man, made contact with a telegraph wire, crashing on to the course, with' an injured wing ? THE pilot Mattez seems to be enjoying the unique position of being paid to refrain from flying. He is practising on the Anterne lake with a waterplane with a view to flying to Lausanne, but as the lake is at an altitude of 2,230 m., his friends hold that the flight is a dangerous one. They have placed 5,000 francs in the hands of the French Consul to be handed to Mattez if he will give up the idea of making the flight. Presumably at about another 1,000 m. higher, the price would go up to about 10,000 francs. JT'ROBA^LY one of the most interesting and remarkable structures in the world is the wonderful hill temple of Boro- Budur in Java, one of the most gigantic and finest worksever reared by the ancients. In its construction there is represented probably more human labour and artistic skillthan in the Great Pyramid. Yet this great monument of seventh-century architecture is hardly known by name even :by modern visitors, for all practical purposes, not at all. and it is now suggested that by means of the aeroplane thisneglect shall be remedied. Access to it is tiresome and difficult, but it is claimed that no trouble will be experienced in reachingthe site of the Temple via the air, and this scheme, we learn from the Scientific American, is likely to materialise in thenot far-distant future. So unique is this fine example of ancient Indian art that the following particulars as supplied by Mr. Francis Dickie, and accompanying views of the structure, the work of Mr. Frank Burnett, a Canadian amateur archaeologist, cannot fail to be of interest to our readers, especially having regard to the part to be played by aviation in opening up a more general knowledge of this Javanese edifice. Boro-Budur was built about the seventh century A.D., as far as is known from philological research. It lies in central Java, and owes SOME DETAILS OF THE REMARKABLE HILL TEMPLE OF BORO-BUDUR IN JAVA: 1. Thesestone lions have been laughing for the past thirteen hundred years, with little if any signs of wear. 2. One of the many ornamental panels representing incidents in the life of Buddha. 3. A statue of Buddhasitting upon a lotus leaf. 4. Some of the 72 lattice-worked stone dagabas or shrines. 5. Another panel .. - - . - representing the life of Buddha -•-•• ' v .. 937 . ..
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