66 REPORT—1848. 
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quality, would also imply that the source of heat lay rather to the north-west of the 
existing coal-field. 
The existence of this variety of coals in the South Wales basin is an object of such 
interesting inquiry, that the writer ventured to offer these remarks in case they might 
in any way tend to assist in leading the minds of others to the discovery of a true 
solution of the cause. 
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Kanade: 
1, Anthracite. 2, Culms. 3, Free-burning, gradually becoming 4 and5. = Bituminous. 
Notice of a Map of Ancient Egypt of the Time of Antoninus Pius. 
By Joseru Bonomt. 
It is divided into Nomes or provinces from C, Ptolemy's Geography, and contains 
the roads from the Roman Itinerary. Against the towns in the land of Goshen are 
written the Hebrew names from the Book of Exodus, which mark the march of the 
Israelites, and a reference to Isaiah, chap. xl. 15, explains that the head of the Red 
Sea had been separated by the sands since that interesting event, and left in the form 
ofalake. The Lake of Mceris is also laid down as discovered by Linant in 1843, 
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On the Discovery of some Remains of the Fossil Sepia in the Lias of Glou- 
cestershire. By Prof. Buckman, £.G.S. 
Remains of the Belemnite and other animals allied to the recent Cuttlefish, abound _ 
in the lias formation, but the chambered portion of the Belemnite is seldom present, 
and the ink-bag of the Sepia is still more raré. One specimen discovered by Mr. 
Buckman in the lower lias is rather more than half the shell or “bone” of a Sepia, 
nine inches long and six inches wide; in the centre of the specimen is preserved the 
ink-bag, which consists of about six drachms of a jet-black, hard and splintery sub- 
stance, easily ground down, and capable of being used as sepia or Indian-ink. An- 
other specimen is four inches long and two inches wide, and is marked by three raised 
lines, which meet in a point at the base; the ink-bag is seen in the centre of this spe- 
cimen also, They were obtained from a bed of fissile marl about four inches thick, 
in the upper lias near Cheltenham, along with plants, insects, Ammonites, and four 
species of fish, besides the uncinated arms of another fossil Cuttlefish. 
On the Plants of the “ Insect Limestone” of the Lower Lias. 
By Prof. Buckman, F.G.S. 
The band of limestone at the base of the lias is well known in Gloucestershire and 
the adjoining counties from its use in flooring barns and kitchens, and to the geologist 
hades 
