ment increased , for while it was too irregular to be a work of art ,■ it seemed to be too 

 close an imitation of one for a natural production. Amidst the jungles of the granilic 

 mountains of Pinang I had been farailiar with all the shapes and posilions which I had 

 eonsidered detached masses of that rock capable of assuming. I had there seen it in solid 

 boulder-like blocks of vast size, sometimes cubical, and sometiraes approximating to globu- 

 lar. I had also seen it in smaller blocks piled one over another with all the regularity of 

 druidical masonry. But I had never seen or read of granite carved by nature after the 

 fashion of the mass before which I stood. In the perpendicular face of the rock were scooped 

 out, from top to bottom, deep concave hollows or grooves varying in breadLh and depth. 

 Between these the rock projected in huge unshapely columns like a row of rude idols. 

 Towards the top these pillars were rounded. In sorae a slight curved groove or fissure cros- 

 sed the upper part, the conyexity being downwards, and thus converting the summitinto a 

 globe resting in a cup. Below the line of the fissure the pillar contraeted very much on 

 both sides as if it had been at this" place scooped evenly out. It then bulged out on both 

 sides, but much more on the Ie ft than the right, The sides nexteonverged, and, lower down, 

 approached more rapidly. They then bulged out again till the soil hid the rock from further 

 view. In some of the columns the curvesof the sides assumed the form of a vase. The bot- 

 toms of most of the hollows or channels between were nearly uniform in depth altho' somewhat 

 uneven or conchoidal. Of these singularly shaped columns five or six had a close resemblance 

 to each olher. When viewed from the side they were all seen 1o be scooped quite round at 

 the places where in the front view they contraeted, so that their edges appeared thus (fig. 1.) 

 In fig. 2, a, a, is the last of these pillars. Beyond it to the right the regularily is 

 broken, and the groovcs appear as in the shaded portions of the fig. The groove on the 

 right of a, a, marked c , c, is a remarkable one. The upper part has a rcgular semi-cylin- 

 drical shape. At the line b, b } it abruptly, but with all the regularily of art, slopes 

 inwards at a sharp angle, so that the part darkly shaded forms a cavily apparently about 

 five feet in depth. A slight groove, an inch or two in depth, is shewn at d, and deeper 

 groovcs appear further along. The pillars whose side view is as in fig. 1 are on the other 

 side or to the left of a, a. Ascending the hill I managed to clamber to the top of the 

 rock, where I found the grooves to be parlially prolonged on the surface in an inclined 

 direction. The surface at some places was hollowed into cup like depressions. Climbing fur- 

 ther up the hill I came, at no great distance, to another rock of much larger dimensions. It 

 was reft or traversed by a chasm from 6 to 8 feet broad. The sides of the chasm were much 

 fresher than the external surface, and the mass had evidcntly been split across at a time 

 subsequent to ils existence as a separate rock and the formation of the grooves with which it 

 also was traversed in front. The exlremity of one of the two masses projected for some dis- 

 tance over the sloping ground so as to form a capacioüs cave. At another side a larger frag- 

 ment had fallen from the rock and lay against it. On its surface was a cup or ralher spoon- 

 shaped cavity about two feet in diameter and one in depth. At another place a second pro- 

 jecting rock occured forming another cave, about thirteen paces in length. The entire length 

 of the rock which thus projected seemed to be about forty paces. On the same side there 

 were numerous grooves, some not exceeding a few inches in depth and breadth, olhers above 



