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burning paper. The Lew Chewans have a regard, somewhat like that of Mohomedans, for any 

 paper with a sacred name upon it ; and lest such may he trodden under foot, and so desecrated, 

 they burn them in the little edifices alluded to. 



Before dismissing the geology of Lew Chew, I ought to say that, just south of Nacumma, we 

 crossed, along the shore, numerous patches of recently formed rocks. The rolled pebbles of the 

 shore, together with fragments of coral, and anything else that may happen to come in, are 

 agglutinized by carbonate of lime, (probably the washings of coral reefs,) and are formed into a 

 firm compact rock. This rock is only about a foot thick, and lies in table-like fragments upon 

 the sands, where it was formed. I saw a similar recently made rock, of fine sandstone, on the 

 beach, just west of Point de Galle, in Ceylon. 



The Lew Chew Islands. 



