392 THE OLD KEDAH-PATANI TRADE ROUTE. 
This cutting which is the actual Génting Pahat is some fifty 
yards long by ten feet deep and though only 3 feet broad at the 
bottom widens gradually from the height of a man’s shoulders until 
it merges into the slopes of the hill on either hand; it is probably 
due to the action of two small streams rising on different sides of 
the watershed eating back gradually until their valleys have 
coalesced. 
The walls of the cutting are composed of reddish earth plenti- 
fully mixed with small black pebbles and may have been shaped 
as the name appears to imply or merely be due to the wear- 
ing effects of traffic. In the centre of the cut is the boundary stone 
(No. 34) which divides Kedah from Siam and at the end of it in 
Siamese territory is the prostrate trunk of a giant Mérbau which 
has defied decay for many a year and is regarded as a keramat: 
whereon the suppliant or thankful passer by lays a stone of pro- 
pitiation. The nearest village in Siamese territory on the further 
side of the border is Sénaok some two miles distant whence the 
way is open to Patani. 
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