THE 
or 
THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO 
AND 
EASTERN ASIA. 
NOTES ON THE GEOLOGICAL FEATURES OF SINGAPORE 
AND SOME OF THE ISLANDS ADJACENT. 
By Lieut. Colonel Low, C. M, R. A. S. & M. A. S. C. 
I submit my imperfect notes to the public in the hope that 
they may prove of some utility to any scientific and more practised 
geologists than myself who may wish to examine the Island. I can¬ 
not here avoid adverting to an observation made by one of the 
greatest geologists of the day, Sir. R. Murchison, while adverting to 
a paper on the geology of Pinang by the late Dr. Ward, and to 
which he was, I suppose, led by that writer. He remarks, “Although 
we may regret that the Malayan Archipelago offers no other than pri¬ 
mary rocks, here and there covered with their disintegrated ma¬ 
terials, we must hold up as highly worthy of imitation that good 
spirit which prompted the Resident, Mr. Kenneth Murchison, to 
take all the means at his disposal to obtain for us this amount of 
natural knowledge,—as it is obvious that similar efforts on the part 
of the chief officers in any distant colonies would prove of inappre¬ 
ciable value.”* I think it probable that it will hereafter appear 
that the above restriction has been overhastily made, arid that little 
has yet been done by English Geologists in the countries lying East 
* Address by R. I. Murchison, Esq., to the anniversary meeting of the 
Geoi. Soc. loth. Feby. 1833, page 23. 
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