AND ISLANDS OF JOIIORE. 
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lo Ubin. Tlnjorig Penyuso (Point Romania) is the S.E. point of a 
bold rocky promontory, and the numerous rocky islets, reefs and locks 
off it, are probably vestiges of the greater extension to the south¬ 
ward which it anciently possessed. The rock of which the promon¬ 
tory and these remnants are composed appears to be entirely pluto- 
nic.* I did not land to examine it, Mr. Thomson having previously 
given me specimens which he had collected, and the uniformity of its 
aspect and apparent identity in character with the some parts of Pu- 
lo Ubin, leaving little room for doubt as to its mineral constituents. 
From the N.E. point of the promontory, Tanjong Sippong, a long 
flat sandy beach, called Teloh Ayer Rambut, curves northward with 
beautiful regularity to another rocky point, Tanjong Pungai. Fresh 
water streams enter the sea at each extremity of this Teloh. r I he 
mouth of the northern one, Sungie Pungai, is said to be deep. Tan¬ 
jong Pungai has a remarkable appearance, from the beach at the foot 
of the cliff being completely covered by large rounded blocks, con¬ 
sisting chiefly of hydrous peroxide of iron, and gleaming in the sun 
like so many gigantic balls of polished metal. I landed on the sandy 
beach north of the point and remained some time examining these 
curious rocks, but to save those readers of the Journal who do not 
take an interest in geology, the trouble of reading the notes of my 
observations, I have placed them in a separate paper." 
From T. Pungai to the northern extremity of the promontory, 
T. Kinawar, the ground is low and flat. The tides rise over the 
sandy beach up to the roots of the trees and shrubs which grow lux¬ 
uriantly in the flat, forming a band of rich and various vegetation. 
The buah buta grow in a continuous fringe in front. Old pictu¬ 
resque pinagd and pudd trees abound ; and here and there clumps of 
the paku, a small and elegant palm, not more than three to four 
feet high, fill the open spaces beneath the spreading branches of the 
trees. The kampa and putat are also common. It is worth a Sin¬ 
gaporean’s while to give a day to visit such a beach as this, for there 
is nothing like it within the Straits. Accustomed there to a salt 
water view hemmed in on all sides by islands, and with the beauty 
possessing the confinement of a lake, there is something indefinably 
exhilirating in once more fronting real sea waves rolling in from the 
horizon. The scene however is not without its saddening aspect. 
* It varies from granite to wacke. The latter may however be a meta¬ 
morphosed sedimentary day. 
See post , Notices of the Geology of the East Coast of Johore. 
