June, 1850. GEOLOGICAL SPECULATIONS. SOORMAH RIVER. 



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buffalo, would have none of the Indian cow, rhinoceros, or 

 elephant ; there would be different species of porpoise, 

 alligator, and deer, and none of the above mentioned plants 

 [Cycas, oak, pine, magnolia and rose), which would be 

 replaced by numerous others, all distinct from those of the 



VIEW IN THE JHEELS. 



Jheels, and many of them indicative of the influence of salt- 

 water, whose proximity (from the rarity of sea-shells) might 

 not otherwise be suspected. 



On the 1st of June we entered the Soormah, a full and 

 muddy stream flowing west, a quarter of a mile broad, 

 with banks of mud and clay twelve or fifteen feet high, 

 separating it from marshes, and covered with betel-nut 

 and cocoa-nut palms, figs, and banyans. Many small 



