118 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 58 



MALAY PENINSULA (Continued) 



740. Vercoe, Ciias. Tin deposits in the Malay Peninsula. 



Mg. Journ. Railw. Comm. Gaz., VoL 50, 1880, London, p. 904. 



Brief description of the mines near Malacca, at Qualla Lumpor and Laroot, and of 

 methods used by Chinese in working them. 



741. Vercoe, H. B. Tin deposits of the Straits. 



Ug. Journ. Railw. Comm. Gaz., Vol. 56, 1886, London, p. 1277. 



Treats briefly of alluvial deposits of Muntaha District of Johore, expresses a belief 

 that tin lodes exist in the surrounding hills, which would prove very productive. 



742. Viator. A trip to the Johore River (tin mines). 



Not. Indian Archipelago Adj. Countr., 1837, Singapore, pp. 265-2C6, map. 



Popular article. Visited tin mines at village of Gongong, which were formerly 

 worked by followers of the Sultan. Smelting furnace now in ruins. Ore about 12 

 feet under surface, in a stratum of coarse " quarry sand," mixed with white clay. 

 Did not seem to be very productive mines. Country very unhealthful. 



743. W . Der Zinnhandel der malayische Halbinsel. 



Oest. Zeitsehr. Berg. Hutt., Vol. 51, Wien, 1903, p. 645. 



744. Wray, Leonard, Jr. Tin in the Straits of Malacca and Tenasserim. 



Mg. Journ. Railw. Comm. Gaz., Vol. 44, 1874, London, p. 378. 



Extract from his lecture " The Settlement on the Straits of Malacca," delivered 

 before Royal Colonial Institute, March 24, 1874. Discussion as to whether the early 

 Phoenicians first got their tin in India or Cornwall. 



745. . Physical geography of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Nature, Vol. 31, 1885, London, p. 459. 



A communication correcting what he considers to be errors in an article by J. E. 

 Tenison-Woods in " Nature," VoL 31, pp. 152-154, 1884. 

 Bears upon the geology of the tin deposits. 



746. . Alluvial tin prospecting: including tables for checking the 



accuracy of bore holes, and for estimating the amount, richness and 

 value of the ore obtained from them. 



Porak Mus. Notes, No. 2, 1893, Taiping, pp. 1-114. 



747. . Some account of the tin mines and the mining industry of 



Perak. 



Perak Mus. Notes, No. 3, 1894, Taiping, pp. 1-24, table 1, pis. i, 5, giving diagrams. 



The first three chapters of a continued article upon tin in Perak, the other num- 

 bers of which are not available to the authors. In this installment the history and 

 statistics of the Malayan tin trade, the geology of the deposits, a description of old 

 mines, and native uses of tin are given. 



MASSACHUSETTS 



74S. Hitchcock, Ed. Tin in Massachusetts. 



Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, ser. 1, Vol. 16, 1829, New Haven, pp. 188-191. 

 Brief review: Jahrb. Min. Geogn. Geol. Petr., 1830, Heidelberg, pp. 316-317. 

 Letter written to editor of Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts. Writer sent specimen from 

 Goshen, Mass., of what he thought to be first tin found in the United States. 



749. HiTCHCOCic, Edward. Report on the geology of Massachusetts examined 

 under the direction of the Governor of that state during the years 

 1830-1831. 



Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, ser. 1, \'ol. 22, 1832, New Haven, pp. 62-63. 

 Tin at Goshen described. 



