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removed or sloped away. A brick wall (about 3 feet high) extends 

 on either side of the road from the foot of the mountain to one-third 

 of its acclivity ; this is succeeded by a dry wall, composed of pieces of 

 rock placed loosely together, and continued to the top. The pagoda 

 is small and void of all interior ornament ; three handsome bells are 

 attached to the court-yard, one of which bears an inscription, having 

 reference to the period of its fabrication, and the various metallic sub- 

 stances of which it is composed. 



Adopting the nomenclature of MacCulloch, the rocks under 

 review are of the primitive and secondary class ; all more or less dis- 

 tinctly stratified, and of a highly crystalline or compact nature. The 

 Zingyet Thowng is principally composed of gneiss, and covered with a 

 forest more or less thick, according to the depth of the soil on which it 

 reposes ; in places where the rock approaches the surface divested of 

 vegetable mould, little or nothing is seen save a few stunted bushes 

 and patches of parched grass, that had been produced during the rainy 

 season ; tbese become more perceptible as one advances towards the 

 summit, which, with the exception of one particular spot, the site of 

 the pagoda, and terminating in a peak, is either round backed or 

 cristated. The interior of the gneiss presents signs of disintegration 

 from constant exposure to the atmosphere ; indeed, the rock is in some 

 instances so decayed that it crumbles to pieces in the hand ; but for 

 the stratification, it might be taken for a species of fine grained 

 granite : if I mistake not, granite has seldom been found stratified ; 

 gneiss will therefore be the more appropriate name. It must, however, 

 be observed, that the stratification of the rock is in some places indis- 

 tinct and irregular, the inclination of the strata being sometimes to 

 the northward, and not unfrequently to the southward, of west. 

 Under this gneiss probably repose the quartz-rock granite and mica 

 slate found extending from the sea (in a N. N. W. and S. S. E. 

 direction) towards the Ky^kmi pagoda. I regret much that it was 

 not in my power to ascertain, by a personal and minute examina- 

 tion, whether such is actually the case ; my visit to Kytfkmi was 

 unfortunately confined to a short walk upon the beach, where these 

 rocks are found lying in the following order ; they are all regularly 

 stratified, the several strata of no great thickness, but dipping into the 

 ground at an angle of 75° or 80°; commencing from the jetty, and 

 advancing by the pagoda to the west, they were observed as follows : 



1 . Red iron clay (the result of decomposed sandstone ?), enclosing 

 nodules of quartz ; this clay is cellular, of a ferruginous appearance, 

 and has the property of becoming hard on exposure to the atmosphere. 

 Q. Is this the laterite of the western peninsula ? 



