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a more crystalline texture than the blocks themselves, lie imbedded 
in the latter ; and in several of the large blocks I have found, after 
thev have been split, nodules of the size of a two pound shot, and 
nearly as spherical, of black iron stone, slightly glimmering, not 
magnetic and reluctantly yielding to the knife. 
That the slightly reddish crystalline sandstone is very durable 
may be inferred from the fact that there was a rock of it, bear¬ 
ing an ancient inscription, extent on the narrow point on the left 
of the entrance to the Singapore river, but which was demolish' 
ed several years ago in clearing the spot for some building. The 
inscription, fragments of which I possess was only legible in a few 
places, the character appertaining to the Peninsula of India, and pro¬ 
bably it may be that described in the Malayan annals in these terms 
4i Raja Stiran of Amdan Nagara after conquering the state of Jo- 
hore with his Kling troops [Kling is the term applied to the people 
of Coromandel} proceed to Tamsak. When he returned to his 
country of Kling or Bejaneegar , he left a stone monument of his 
victories on which was an inscription in the language of Hindoostan. 
Tam Sak is also called Singhapura”* This was about A. D. 1201 
Singapura, observes Mt. Crawfurd, was first settled in A. HP. 1160 
by Sri Sura Bawana. 
All of the sandstone seems more less impregnated with iron, 
but I could not discover by the usual tests any lime in them. 
With respect to these spherical nodules I am alluding to the 
fractured strata before described in which alone I found them. 
The stratification of the clays may be well observed close to the 
tank on the S. face or end of Dr. Oxley’s ground. 
A very instructive display of the strata of sandstones which have 
been forced over on their edge,—and thus now rest vertically— 
may be found, when the tide is at an ebb, below the rather bluff 
points stretching along the sea beach to the east of the town 
just beyond u Guthrie’s Hill.” These here from a rough and 
extensive platform. I did not observe, if I recollect aright, the 
hard red sandstone. The variety of the colours of the strata is 
here very distinctly defined. Their cleavage too appeared gene¬ 
rally to be transversed to the stratification. Y 
* Leyden’s Translation, Annal 1st and 2d. 
