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the Xrawadi, and was by far the most frequent in 
those portions of the ravines which lead imme¬ 
diately into it. I may here remark, that the sin¬ 
gular formation of barren sand-hills and ravines, 
which so abound with fossil wood and bones, is 
confined to the eastern bank of the river. The 
western bank, to a great extent, is a low champaign 
country, bearing little resemblance to the opposite 
one. 
To elucidate the subject of the fossil bones, X 
shall here notice, that according to the report of 
the natives, or our own observations, the following 
are the quadrupeds at present existing in the 
neighbourhood ; viz. a leopard, a wild cat, a 
species of deer the cervus manjac , the hare, the 
hog, with a mole rat. Of these, we saw ourselves 
the deer, hare, and rat. The elephant, the rhi¬ 
noceros, the wild cow, and buffalo, with the royal 
tiger, which are found in different other parts 
of the Burman territory, exist nowhere near to 
the situations in which we found the fossil bones 
in such abundance. 
Jan. 4.—We embarked last night, and began 
again this morning to prosecute our voyage, after 
a detention of eight days. Xn the evening we 
stopped at Magwe, on the eastern bank: about 
a mile above it, Dr. Wallich and I landed, and 
walked down to the place. The bank of the river 
was as high and precipitate as at Re-nan-gyaong, 
and apparently consisted of the same alluvial for- 
