[89] Vide paper on the "Geology of the Andamans," by Dr R. D. Oldham, Proceedings, Geological Survey of India, vol. xviii.
[90] Still being deposited at Barren Island.
[91] This conclusion, although in some ways difficult to conceive of—for the Arakan coast to the north, and the Nicobars to the south, are both fringed by raised coral beaches, which show they have recently been elevated—is based principally on the fact that stumps of trees, which grow only above high-water mark, and beyond the reach of salt water, are found in the mangrove swamps and on the seashore.
[92] Pinkerton's Collection of Voyages.
[93] Extractes of Master Cæsar Frederike: his Eighteen Yeares' Indian Observations. Purchus: his Pilgrimes, London, 1625; vol. ii., p. 1710.
[94] A Voyage Round the World by Dr John Francis Gemelli Careri. Churchill's Collection of Voyages and Travels, vol. iv.
[95] Pinkerton's Collection of Voyages.
[96] A Mission to Ava, by Col. Michael Syme, 3 vols.
[97] The Indian Antiquary, monthly numbers, April 1900-June 1901, contains articles by Lieut.-Col. R. C. Temple on Blair's reports of his survey and settlement in the Andamans.
[98] Vide "Our Monthly," June and July 1883. Rangoon.