404 Prof. BucKLAND on the supposed Power of the Waters of the Irawadi, ^c. 



and the greater part of them had remained many years, and some of them 

 probably hundreds of years, subject to partial or continual submersion in the 

 ■waters of the Irawadi. Not the slightest trace of petrifaction was observed 

 on any particle of all these pillars : and had it escaped the observation of the 

 Botanical Professor, its presence (if existing) must have been detected in the 

 fire. This evidence seems therefore not only to justify the assertion of Mr. 

 Crawfurd, — that the waters of the Irawadi have no such petrifying power as 

 the natives ascribe to them, — but also to confirm the opinion I have expressed 

 in my Postscript, respecting the pillars of teak at Prome which are said to 

 have been petrified throughout, in the short space of ten years. 



