OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 13 



5. Meanwhile, or perhaps subsequently, denudation was 

 attacking the deposits piled up above the Gondwana rocks, 

 and in the course of time,. the remains of the arches and. the 

 granite cementing these remains together were laid bare and 

 carved out to form the surface of the Peninsula as we know 

 it, to-day. 



6. In recent times the Peninsula was an island and the 

 flat mangrove swamps on its coasts were sea. 



R. A. Soc, No. 59, I9?L 



