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WITH SOME ASM ARKS ON THE FORMATION AND STACCTCRE OF UYPUC EM. RQCES 



AJSD ON TttK S LET AMORT ELI C TttEQKY- 



"via f/oii? is. an bland Lying in the strait between Sirtffapora and the coast of the /l/alayan 

 Fatrinstiia , of which the eastern exlrcnulv faces the entrance of the dehor* river. It it 

 about fhe miles La length , } with i general direction from lv by 5E- to W. by PTW- , and 

 h,i-i a varvijirr breadth from a rtnife to *^ of 0 mile. 



In derailing the results of four or five Twits which I nave made to it within the last 

 few month* t I shall tlrst endeavour to coDTcy some conception of the distinctive aspect of 

 the Island > or I hot which would strike a stranger; end thia object will be beat served by 

 ^itia^ my own tiral hnprca&Lons an thev wcro written down At the time Ln m? Journal 7 

 rvon although thrv t:m brace iomc ideas that were afterwards corrected by a wider survey. 

 I shall neit describe the rock a of I be Island t lo far a* J hare observed them t noticing 

 ■slightly liit scenery whore it is most remarkable for its beauty. The concluding portion of 

 the paper will lie occupied with some deductions from (he urccedin^ details, a notice of 

 the relation* bcEw-rn, the Island and the adjacent, rotalilic* and ^rau riumirks upon it* bea- 

 ring on Rtfolofju-Eil theories, current at present 



Tcj L.'niiL Lfcu-ti wiili the* im|..r -i-Mis made by the first fiigbt of the island 1 rrossed from a small 

 Malayan cam ponft on the coast of Singapore opposite Pah Ubin 3 called Paisi&r Hie*. There it 

 here a deep iudeiilaEion in the Sirtgp-pard coast, or rather lwo hilly and wended points {Tan- 

 j&ng Chancy and Tunjong P&n$ttl) t advance from it I o wards each eitfcmi[y of P, Uhin and in- 

 clude with its southern shore a nobie sheet of water about three mile* bng and two mi tat braid 

 nave nt iti eitremitie» r where it in contrite ted between the Paint* and P. Vain lo strait* of about 

 one mile in bread Eh, This I *Und- fronted LSiy must originally havu hern much greater en the 

 Singapore side, an the creek of SsVflf^cem winds through a broad eipan'e of manjjrore jungle, 

 and Eerini nates m a swampy Tnllcy the whole of which has, been accurrjuU'LEcd on the w\d 

 sea bed fl). As we kit Patvier Rut, the Strait, land locked en all sides and smouth on itt 



(l) VtUil faliavi u fcr ei ^ 7 iu oppiiJ from «j JoUrflgL id * pspfr* cfcicflj nlaling l« Wwoxg . vfaiih I 



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