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trict had been engaged with our troops at Do- 
nabew, on the 7th of March, and suffered se¬ 
verely in that affair, not onedialf of those who 
had joined the army having ever returned. 
In the evening we crossed over to Patanago, 
which is still smaller than Melloon. Close to 
it is a narrow lake, two miles in length ; and 
we were informed that a second , of larger ex¬ 
tent, exists at no great distance. In the cold 
season, these lakes had been covered with 
a multitude of ducks and other water-fowl; 
but these, which are migratory, had not yet 
made their appearance. A short way above 
Patanago is a cliff, which exposes a section of 
the rock and soil. The rock is calcareous sand¬ 
stone in strata, nearly horizontal. The greater 
part of it is so decomposed, that I found it 
difficult to get specimens sufficiently hard for 
preservation. Intermixed with the softer strata, 
and alternating with them, were thinner strata 
of a hard and tough rock, which I suspect to 
be calcareous limestone. I found none of the 
blue slatey clay upon this occasion which I 
met below the sandstone at Loongee. The 
soil was composed of sand and yellow clay, 
intermixed with large pebbles of flint, white 
quartz, and common quartz. On the Meloon 
side I traced the sandstone to the highest hill. 
