Glé Mentelah — the Mentelah — was the great forested mountain chain of the interior of Groot-Atjeh, described from the berg-plateau of 14 August 1879 by W. Cool and G. B. Hooijer in Eene schoone bladzijde uit Atjeh’s geschiedenis (1889): a range of six thousand feet, whose serrated ridge — “de getande kam” — rose proud and stately over a length of twenty kilometres, closing the deeper view into Sumatra’s interior with its steep, densely wooded walls. On the southern, east side of the heavily wooded Mentelah massif, the Atjeh-rivier takes its rise.
In the topography of the upper Atjeh valley
In the panorama sketched from the plateau where the signal rockets had been sent up, the Mentelah chain formed the frame of the eastern horizon: at its foot the Atjeh-rivier, having received the Selimoen and Lamkabir rivers, rushed through the deeply incised, densely grown ravine in a north-westerly direction towards Selimoen. The river kloof of the Kroeng Lam Lo-öt, which divided the wooded steep ridges of the Mentelah-keten from the 200-metre hill mass spreading between the massif and the Atjeh-rivier, watered a sawah flat with some kampongs, about as large as that of Aloe-er Gintang. Behind the confused interwoven hill-ridges the six-thousand-foot chain ran on. Together with the Glé Raja, the Glé Agam (7,500 feet) and the Goudberg — three-to-4000-metre-wide valley floor between the Mentelah massif and that mountain — the Glé Mentelah was one of the names by which the schetskaart fixed, for the first time, the orography of the furthest valley entered by Dutch arms.
See Also
- Schetskaart van het boven-stroomgebied der Atjeh-rivier (1889)
- Selimoen
- Acheh River
- Glé Raja
- Goudberg
- 1879
Source
Eene schoone bladzijde uit Atjeh’s geschiedenis, door W. Cool en G. B. Hooijer (‘s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1889), pp. 45-47. OCR-filename: 20260720_115822_DLP-135-Eene_schoone_bladzijde_uit_Atjeh_s_geschiedenis_Nemotron_OCR_v2_OCR.txt.