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dually shallow mg like them a* it descends; the stem of a tree rooted at the base 

 ascends the face of the rock .md enter* the bottom, of the groove., following it till, as the 

 depth increases, it is lest to sight} ot the summit it re-appesn und spreads its branches 

 alien a the rock. A.L (he NE eitremiLy of this portion of the f ace p the rock retires a 

 Few feet, and then stretches again Eo the NE,, shewing a high quadrangular face with on- 

 lv a few channel*- 



Facing this side, add 41 a distance! of IS to 40 yards r a much larger and more regular 

 mast* rises in the jungly The face opposHc (and I am particular in moling Lhe direct torn 

 of the faces,, because they appear always to coincide with structural plutet of division or 

 imperfect eohction) is about NE. by ff. , that it , nearly the fame as that of the rock 

 opposite. This face i> ucnrly iniadraiiguliir , and, judging by the eye , somewhat above SO 

 feet in height. The upper portion exhibits ■ few furrows, some of considerable depth, but* 

 as the face slightly incline* inwards , these terminate near the too. The NW. and SE. 

 face (t, e. that fsciog I tic strait or §W ■) is more imposing still. It it 110 feet in length 

 and abuut 40 in height. Ei is slightly inclined inwards, and is ei foliating. The upper pari 

 alone shews two ur three furrows f a few feet io length. U i* surmounted by a thicket 

 of shrubs.. The rock is a syenite, white felspar in general constituting 1 the great bulk. En 

 some places portions of it ha?e a light greenish hue, The hamhlutide in im-gulnry dis|ierscd , 

 generally in a state of confuted aggregation, and sometimes mixed with feispathic grains * 

 hut JVLijuently also in Jonff drawn streaks and seams. At one place it was so much in 

 nccss as to give the fractured surface of the rock a very pceuliur rariefated appearance , 

 blackish green, light green, and a light iron hue, being variously intermixed with a lesser 

 proportion of white and greyish. On the SE. side the rock slopes tes tin: ground so thai 

 1 was enabled to climb to the summit and examine it. It is throughout more or less fur- 

 roWcd , but the furrows ore irregular in their sisc, positions and directions , and da net 

 approach to the symmetrical or artificial appearance of those en the sides of some of the 

 rocks. About the middle of the rock, from the bottom of the slope on the SE. to the 

 edge of the opposite or NW. ahle f there arc Hitut Well marked divisional linr-a running 

 NW. by N. nearly, but there are ethers less marked at rarious angles with these. The 

 rough holes and gutters on this part gene*ally fu]Jow the kutiu direction . wlndi is ril** thai 

 of the general slope. . Towards the >E, face the summit slopes in that direction t arid 

 l Em- hoJhnvs take the seme coarse. Some of these arc prolonged in channels which descend 

 the vertical EVE, fieri, which is of coiwidcrably Less height than the SW. The eiamma- 

 lion of this rock satined me that Lhe bIojh; of the rock., and the direction of the structural 

 plcucs of imperfect cohesion, determine the direction of the channel? * and, that being the 

 case, the mucins Lou secmj inevitable, that rain has been the great agent of erosion. On lhe 

 SE, fate, where there is a gradual slope to the ground > the holluws cover the whele sur- 

 face, but are irregular, because there the rain torrents descended with I c>,h impetus , and their 

 action was not greatly aided by the gravity of the masses on which it acted. At some 

 places it has worn depressiona of considerable depth and breadth along a line of division , 

 but, owing probably to the occurrence of portions of rack of a different and less decomposable 

 arrangement nr apportionn&cul i f i1t.5rccjKi.iU. f lu-*c -liv separated by -.'.nl walls, ur tm»U 



