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firmed, by finding the upper surface calcareous, 

 at some parts more or less discoloured. The 

 formation of the rock was secondary, being of a 

 red sandstone, and in many specimens, which 

 I broke off, I observed a very minute line 

 of sandstone, running through the calcareous 

 substance ; although other parts of this rock 

 were also calcareous, yet they had not a white 

 appearance, from being covered and discoloured 

 by marine conferva and minute crustaceous ani- 

 mals, to such an extent as to entirely lose their 

 white appearance unless broken ; and the marine 

 animals being constantly in the other rocks washed 

 by the sea, which the high and white rock was not, 

 caused a still further increase of marine weeds, 

 &c. upon them. I collected some excellent speci- 

 mens, showing the two different strata very dis- 

 tinctly. 



About ten p. m. of the 26th, we anchored in 

 Singapore roads ; and upon the following day I 

 landed and took up my residence, during my 

 stay at the settlement, with my friend Mr. Bou- 

 stead. 



The island of Singapore,* at the part on which 



* This island is of an elliptical form, and is said to be 

 about twenty-seven miles in its greatest length, and contain- 



