NOTES. 199 



Wolframite is also recorded by Leonhard, as well as Saltpetre. 

 and Rose quartz^ both of which latter are certainly found in 

 Ceylon. 



" Oriental Emerald " is mentioned by Max Bauer in his "Edels- 



einkunde," which is however totally unreliable as regards Ceylon. 



Greenish sapphires do occur, but rarely, and hardly deserve the 



name of Oriental Emerald. N.B. — Max Bauer states erroneously 



that Beryl does not occur in Ceylon. 



Beccarite. — A biaxial variety of Zircon from Ceylon. 



Andesine. — (Des cloiseaux, 1884). 



Borax. — (Mentioned by Dana). 



I am indebted to Mr. L. J. Spencer for several of these refer- 

 ences. 



C. — Some early Records. 



Nicolo Conti, who travelled in the East between 1419 and 1444, 

 speaks of a "very noble island, called Zeilan, in which they find 

 by digging, rubies, saffares, garnets, and those stones which are 

 called cat's-eyes." 



Albanasius Nilikin, who travelled between 1468 and 1474, 

 speaks thus of Ceylon : " Ceylon is another not inconsiderable 

 port of the Indian sea. There, on a hill, is the tomb of Adam, and 

 in the vicinity are found precious stones, antimony, fastisses, 

 agate, cinchai, crystal, sumbada. " A little after he says: "At 

 Ceylon you find ammone, antimony, fatisses." Of these, antimony 

 is not known to occur in Ceylon ; cinchai doubtless refers to 

 spinel (kirinchi). Agate of a sort does occur sparingly in Ceylon, 

 but it is more likely that agate of Indian origin is here referred to. 



Ludovico de Varthema, who travelled from 1503 to 1508, 

 speaks of the rubies, garnets, sapphires, jacinths, and topazes of 

 Ceylon. 



These references are extracted from Sir George Birdwood's 

 " Report on the Old Records of the India Office," London, 1891. 



A. K. COOMARASWAMY. 



6. Recent Marine Clays at Kuchaveli, Ceylon: Ananda K. 

 Coomaraswamy . 



Note on some Post Tertiary Molliisca from Ceylon: R. Bullen 



Newton. 



Geol. Mag., Dec. v. vol. II., No. XL, November, 1905. 



A recent marine clay is exposed near Nachchiarmalai on the 

 Matti-aru (near Kuchaveli, 22 miles north of Trincomalee) about 



