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been much rolled, certainly not more than the 

 other igueous ïocks, with which they are associat- 

 ed. The fact of the boulders increasing, both in 

 number and sizc, as we approach the Chirempag, 

 as also their total absence above its mouth, seems 

 to point out that ravine with its mountain tor- 

 rent as the path, along which its fragments have 

 been conveyed. The head of the Chiberrum, in 

 which the first specimen was discovered, is only 

 separated by a narrow ridge from that of the 

 Chirempag, and though the former river contains 

 very few of these stones , yet the fact helps to 

 confirm the where aboutsof the Granite; as neither 

 the Chikiam, which flows from the North of the 

 Gedé, nor the Chidwrian , which sweeps round 

 its Eastern base, contains a single vestige of this 

 stone. The Granite in site may be higher up 

 the Chirempag than what bas been examincd; it 

 may be concealed by the earth and dense forests ; 

 or the fragments, which we now behold, may have 

 been thrown down at the period of the paroxysmal 

 explosion of the Gunung Gedé, which bas evi- 

 dently been much bul kier at a former period and 

 of which now onJy the ruins remain. 



During the period, that the Gunung Gedé of 

 Jasinga was an active volcano, it appears pro- 

 bable, that the Sea washed at least its base, if it 

 did not entirely cover it. The volcanic liquid 

 seems mostly to have flowed towards the South 

 and West, or land side, where the trachytes are still 

 found piled up ; if any discharge took place to- 

 wards the North, it is enterily covered over by 





