AND GHOIjOGY OF TUB MALAY PENINSULA. lift 
by the sea; and it hardly needs this tradition, which may have been 
derived from the aboriginal occupants, to support a conclusion natu¬ 
rally resulting from the flatness of the circumjacent alluvial country, 
the shells that have been found in it, and the circumstance that two 
rivers, the one (a principal branch of the Kedah River called Sim- 
pang Ramble) flowing to the north, and the other (the Mirbou) to 
the smith of the mountain, are connected by a channel behind it. In 
the large flat plain lying to the north of GunOng Jerai, and about G 
miles from the sea shore, is situated a singular mass of limestone 
called the Elephant Hill, Judging from Dr, Ward’s description, it 
affords many evidences both of recent elevation, and ol having for cen¬ 
turies been an island. Its sides are steep cliffs, and several detach¬ 
ed columns, apparently resembling those found near the Meuse in 
France, and on the sides of inland limestone rocks in other countries, 
together with numerous stalactitic caves, shew the abrading action of 
the waves. Dr. Ward notices a mass of recent shells elevated about 
8 or 10 feet above the level of the plain. This mass appears to he 
entirely similar in its component shells, and the basis in which they 
are agglutinated, to the larger mass which we observed on the north 
side of B, Duraka Juru. The Elephant Hill, if examined more mi¬ 
nutely, would probably afford important evidence respecting the na¬ 
ture of the movement by which it was elevated, whether abrupt, or 
slow and constant, or by successive steps interrupted by periods of 
quiescence. Captain Newbold suggests the careful examination of 
the caves with a view to the discovery of organic remains. But, si¬ 
tuated as it is in a very modern alluvial plain and surrounded by a 
swamp, it is not probable that any of the caves are ossiferous. 
Before quitting this part of our subject, the general relation of the 
island of Plnang to the alluvial formations along the shores of the 
mainland requires to be noticed. 
The revolutions which have taken place in the channel between 
Pinang and the mainland are deserving of a more extended examina¬ 
tion. We have little doubt that, from the various accessible vestiges 
that remain, the whole past geological history of the alluvium of the 
Island and the Province could, without much difficulty, be unravelled. 
