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A NATUJiJLJSrS WANDEEINQS 



or denudiDg agency, in tlie horizontally kid-dowH black 

 sbiogly dettitus which I liaTe already so often referred to, 

 plainly indicating that at some ei>och not geologically very 

 remote, they had been long submerged, as the whole of Eastern 

 Timor seems to have been, below an arm of the sea, or pos- 

 sibly beneath an inland lake ; and after some hundreds of 

 feet had accumulated on them they were again subjected to 



elevation— which has gone on so long, and may still be pro- 

 gressing — that the rivers have cut their way down through 

 hundreds of feet in height, and cleared out ravines a thousand 

 or two of feet in ividtb. 8uch is the story of the stmnge 

 vicissitudes of Eastern Timor revealed by the buried rocks in 

 the valley of the Fahiletan. 



At the entrance to the Rajah^s componnd I was startled 1>7 

 suddenly coming on a fall pole with a fringed triangle near 



