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  THEOBALD 
  ! 
  GEOLOGY 
  OE 
  PEGU. 
  

  

  There 
  is, 
  in 
  fact, 
  but 
  one 
  single 
  road 
  through 
  the 
  district, 
  along 
  1 
  which 
  

   the 
  traveller 
  can 
  move 
  with 
  any 
  freedom, 
  or 
  along* 
  which 
  any 
  intercom- 
  

   munication 
  takes 
  place. 
  The 
  channels 
  of 
  the 
  larger 
  streams 
  afford 
  an 
  

   uncertain 
  and 
  tedious 
  means 
  of 
  penetrating 
  some 
  distance 
  within 
  the 
  

   hilly 
  region 
  bordering 
  the 
  Arakan 
  range, 
  but 
  from 
  its 
  uninhabited 
  

   character, 
  the 
  country 
  must 
  remain 
  for 
  years 
  closed 
  against 
  anything 
  

   like 
  a 
  close 
  examination. 
  With 
  the 
  boundary 
  running 
  through 
  such 
  

   an 
  almost 
  sealed 
  country 
  as 
  the 
  above, 
  both 
  that 
  separating 
  the 
  Creta- 
  

   ceous 
  group 
  from 
  the 
  rocks 
  whereon 
  it 
  rests 
  to 
  the 
  North, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  

   the 
  boundary 
  between 
  it 
  and 
  the 
  Tertiary 
  groups 
  to 
  the 
  South, 
  and 
  the 
  

   extraordinary 
  scarcity 
  of 
  fossils 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  groups, 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  surmised, 
  

   that 
  any 
  present 
  attempt 
  to 
  define 
  the 
  extent 
  and 
  relations 
  of 
  these 
  

   groups 
  must 
  be 
  almost 
  hopeless. 
  It 
  will 
  suffice 
  therefore 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  

   Cretaceous 
  rocks 
  extend 
  down 
  from 
  the 
  Kyouk-hpew 
  district 
  in 
  latitude 
  

   19° 
  30' 
  certainly 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  Kyeantalee 
  on 
  the 
  coast, 
  a 
  distance 
  of 
  ninety- 
  

   four 
  miles 
  in 
  a 
  straight 
  line. 
  Throughout 
  this 
  long 
  tract 
  of 
  country 
  

   I 
  am 
  aware 
  of 
  no 
  fossils 
  having 
  been 
  met 
  with, 
  save 
  the 
  above 
  men- 
  

   tioned 
  specimen 
  of 
  A. 
  inflatus 
  Sow, 
  but 
  the 
  occurrence 
  here 
  and 
  there 
  at 
  

   intervals 
  of 
  some 
  peculiar 
  beds, 
  seen 
  associated 
  near 
  Mai-i 
  with 
  the 
  

   beds 
  from 
  which 
  A. 
  inflatus 
  was 
  derived, 
  renders 
  the 
  extension 
  of 
  

   the 
  group 
  thus 
  far, 
  as 
  certain 
  as 
  it 
  can 
  be 
  in 
  default 
  of 
  any 
  fossils 
  

   whatever. 
  

  

  How 
  far 
  the 
  group 
  extends 
  south 
  of 
  Kyeantalee 
  is 
  uncertain, 
  as 
  a 
  

   much 
  greater 
  amount 
  of 
  alteration 
  and 
  disturbance 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  rocks 
  

   along 
  the 
  coast 
  South 
  of 
  Kyeantalee 
  than 
  North 
  of 
  it, 
  in 
  the 
  Sandoway 
  

   district 
  ; 
  all, 
  therefore, 
  that 
  can 
  be 
  affirmed 
  is, 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  very 
  possible 
  that 
  

   some 
  of 
  the 
  altered 
  rocks 
  and 
  out-crops 
  of 
  limestone 
  met 
  with 
  between 
  

   Kyeantalee 
  and 
  Cape 
  Negrais, 
  may 
  be 
  of 
  Cretaceous 
  age, 
  rather 
  than 
  

   Nummulitic, 
  to 
  which 
  group 
  the 
  balance 
  of 
  evidence 
  would 
  perhaps 
  

   tend 
  to 
  refer 
  the 
  bulk 
  of 
  the 
  hill 
  rocks 
  of 
  the 
  southern 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  

   Arakan 
  range 
  ; 
  but 
  in 
  default 
  of 
  precise 
  evidence 
  in 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  organic 
  

  

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