NOTICES OP THE GEOLOGY OF THE EAST COAST OF JOIIORE. 62/ 
On the outer margin of the beach rounded fragments from 6 
inches to 2 feet in diameter were strewed. 
At the seaward extremity of the point the strata were well dis¬ 
played. Layers of quartz abounded, not continuous, but shewing 
themselves here and there between the layers of talcose sandstone 
and occasionally crossing them. In general they deflected or dis¬ 
torted the latter in a greater or less measure, as in fig. 1. 
A, is white quartz in a layer of grey talcose sandstone, which has 
been partly reduced into the quartz and distorted along with tlie ad¬ 
jacent layers b and c. The faces of these layers next the quartz were 
highly ferruginous. 
The quartz was also frequently seen entangled as it 
were amongst the sandstone in lumps and in films 
arid seams. Many amorphous lumps were com¬ 
pletely isolated in the sandstone. From the face of 
the cliff behind, huge masses of highly ironmasked 
rock project. From the tops of some of these the 
trunks of trees rose, and the roots spread over the 
bare rock and into holes and crevices. Along the 
bottom of the cliff were many large blocks which 
had fallen down. Some were 30 feet long, and 
from 15 to 24 leet broad and high. They were 
completely ironmasked, in fact masses of iron ore. 
Some had a lateritic aspect and structure, strongly resembling the 
hardest varieties of the laterites of Malacca, such as some of those of 
Pulo Upd. 
I now ascended the hillock, the abraded face of which forms the 
cliff, and which has furnished all the blocks that pave the beach. The 
south side, by which I mounted to the narrow summit, is very steep ; 
the north side is also steep, and although covered with vegetation, 
has at one time been exposed to the action of the waves, as is shewn 
by the projecting rocks and a cove at its foot filled with sea sand 
now overgrown with plants. 
The flat between T. Pungai and T. Kinawar has been filled up 
witli sand driven in and piled by the waves only a little above the 
level of the sea. The rock protruding occasionally through the 
sand is similar to that at the point. At one place the sand had 
been washed away and exposed a conglomerate possessing a consi¬ 
derable degree of consistency, but evidently formed in situ, as it con¬ 
tained fragments of the local quartzose and ironmasked rocks. The 
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