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large grey granite blocfss were seen breaking through the 
sward. The straight side of an oblong block ranged N. N. 
W,—S. S. E., that of a larger one H. N. E.—W. S. W, and 
another was sinuous. Thus the same characteristics which 
are found in the apparently isolated granite of the coast, are 
repeated as we approach the great mountain masses. On 
another side ot the elevation, where it slopes into a moist 
hollow filled with sago and other trees, still larger blocks rise 
above the surface In the next elevation the granite changes 
to reddish. The fences and fruit trees on the right mark the 
continuous belt of enclosures with their cottages which form 
the village A narrow paddy flat running about N. E.-SIV 
interrupts them for a little, and from its edge a high and 
steep ridge rises, called Bukit Marachet. It is the highest 
point of a range running about N. N. E.—S. S.W which has 
several summits, and all the higher parts of which ar e clothed 
with original jungle. The west face of B. Marachet is bare 
nearly to the summit ; abundant black rocks scattered 
over the grassy slope, and the slight section made where the 
public path skirts the belt of fruit trees, give some insight 
into its mineral constitution. The fracture of the rocks 
shews a friable quartz traversed by numerous small veins of 
black iron crust (hydrated peroxide ) Occasionally the rock 
is less quartzose, and its original form is then seen to have 
been a micaceous sandstone. The unaltered sandstone may 
even be here and there detected, but in general it has been 
converted into compact iron-seamed quartz, or a black score- 
ous iron hydrate. In one small rock all these various forms 
were seen together. In many places the quartz passes from 
an amorphous to a finely crystallized state, the crystals occa¬ 
sionally radiating from a centre. 
On climbing to the top of the grassy slope, a striking view 
was obtained of the country in front. On the east and 
stretching away to the south east, a broad and perfectly level 
plain of rice lay beneath the eye, and through it the Surigi 
i ampin took its course. The undulating ground beyond, 
which was thickly covered with cocoanuts, fruit trees and 
cottages, bounded it with its irregular margin, presenting in 
its wavy outlines and frequent advancing prominences, the 
precise appearance ot the indented shores of a lake or inlet 
of the sea. The sense ot the resemblance was heightened when 
a Naning Malay who accompanied me, in mentioning the 
names, of the different places where the dry and elevated 
bank jutted into the fiat, used tiie word tanjong which I had 
so long associated with the points or capes of the sea coast 
